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At least 30 members of parliament in Ukraine receive 19,5 thousand UAH each month from the state budget as compensation for renting housing in the capital. Under current law, these funds are given to non-resident parliamentarians so they can rent a place to live while working in Kyiv.
This is reported by OBOZ.UA.
A significant number of lawmakers prefer to stay in state hotels, in particular the well-known "Kyiv" hotel complex. Meanwhile, other deputies take money from taxpayers’ pockets and rent huge apartments in the most expensive residential complexes in the capital. All this is happening against the background of the fact that since 2026 the amount of so-called “deputy” payments for performing duties has tripled — now each lawmaker receives about 200 thousand UAH per month in addition to their base salary.
But this substantial increase in funding does not stop some parliamentarians from continuing to regularly submit the required applications and demand additional budget money to cover rental costs.
Who spends the state compensation and on what
Parliamentarians exercise their right to housing compensation entirely legally: the law provides that if a deputy does not own residential real estate in the capital or its suburbs, they are entitled to monthly financial assistance from the budget.
For example, Maksym Berezin from the Servant of the People faction receives 19,5 thousand UAH per month from the state treasury for rent. According to his declaration, he lives in a spacious apartment of 86,8 sq. m. The owner of this property is 71-year-old Svitlana Haidutska — the wife of the well-known academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences Pavlo Haidutskyi.
As it was possible to determine, the mentioned apartment is located in a prestigious government quarter, although in an older departmental building. Apartments of similar characteristics in this area are rented on average for about 30 thousand UAH per month — primarily due to the exclusive location. The deputy does not own real estate in Kyiv; he only holds several plots of land in Poltava region.
His faction colleague Kyrylo Nesterenko is officially registered in the dormitory of the Ministry of Education and Science in Dnipro. Since September 2019 this 32-year-old lawmaker has been renting a fairly large apartment — 106,9 sq. m — which belongs to Oleksii Kolesnichenko. Nesterenko also regularly receives state budget funds for this housing. It has not yet been possible to establish the exact location of this property.
Another Servant of the People representative, Oleksandr Kunaiev, takes compensation from the budget to live in one of the most expensive and luxurious residential complexes in the capital. Since January 2024 he has been renting an apartment of 113,6 sq. m from Serhii Korzhov. This refers to the prestigious residential complex "Boulevard of Fountains," located in the heart of the Pechersk district.
It is quite obvious that Kunaiev is short of the 19,5 thousand UAH the state provides: according to current listings on realty platforms, renting a similarly sized apartment in this complex costs at least 76 thousand UAH per month. Before his election to the Verkhovna Rada, Kunaiev held managerial positions at Motor Sich JSC. The deputy is currently 34 years old.
Deputy Anton Shvachko (also from Servant of the People) rents accommodation of 60,2 sq. m from Maryna Yevtushenko. The editorial team established that this apartment is located in the very center of the capital — on Instytutska Street (Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred Alley), just a few minutes’ walk from the parliament building.
Pavlo Yakymenko of Servant of the People has rented a huge apartment of 156,7 sq. m since January 2025. The owner is 67-year-old agribusinessman Hennadii Lapitskyi. The latter privately owns at least 53 real estate objects, among them luxury apartments in the capital’s most elite residential complexes: Busov Hill, Novopecherski Lypky and PecherSKY. The total value of Lapitskyi’s real estate can be estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.
The mentioned 156,7 sq. m apartment is located in the Busov Hill residential complex, where the monthly cost to rent similar space currently starts from 1,5 thousand USD.
Not only lavish apartments: where else deputies live
At the same time, a number of lawmakers list much more modest options in their official declarations — renting ordinary hotel rooms or small rooms. Some deputies also choose fairly modest accommodation without pretense to luxury.
For example, Servant of the People MP Oleh Bondarenko rents a relatively compact apartment of 57,7 sq. m. At the same time, the politician has owned an apartment in Kharkiv since 1999. His colleague Ihor Fris has long been staying in an ordinary hotel room (likely in the state-run "Kyiv" hotel, which is located near the Verkhovna Rada). Deputy Anatolii Kostiukh rented an apartment of 63,4 sq. m.
Meanwhile, some members of parliament who previously actively used compensations later voluntarily gave up the practice and stopped applying for budget funds. For example, Yevhen Petrunyak (Servant of the People) received housing payments until the end of 2022, but did not file a new application for 2023.
According to declarations, the deputy and his wife own 36 real estate objects, among them 12 residential houses. Moreover, in September 2022 the politician’s wife, Iryna, became the official owner of a foreign apartment of 130,84 sq. m in Spain.
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