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In Ukraine, at least 30 members of parliament monthly receive from the state budget 19,5 thousand hryvnias as compensation for housing Rent in the capital. Under current law, these funds are provided to non-resident lawmakers so they can rent a dwelling while working in Kyiv.
OBOZ.UA reports this.
A significant portion of MPs prefer living in government hotels, notably in the famous Kyiv hotel complex. Meanwhile, other deputies take money from taxpayers’ pockets and rent large apartments in the city’s most expensive residential complexes. All of this occurs as, since 2026 year, the size of the so-called “deputy” allowances for fulfilling duties has tripled—now each member of parliament receives roughly 200 thousand hryvnias monthly in addition to their base salary.
But such a substantial increase in funding does not deter some lawmakers from continuing to file appropriate applications and demanding budget funds to cover housing rents.
Who spends the state compensation and on what
Parliamentarians exercise their right to housing compensation entirely legally: by law, if a deputy does not own housing in the capital or its suburbs, they are entitled to a monthly monetary aid from the budget.
For example, Maksym Berezin from the Servant of the People faction receives 19,5 thousand hryvnias per month from the state treasury for rent. According to his declaration, he lives in a spacious apartment of 86,8 square meters. The owner of this property is 71-year-old Svitlana Haidutska—the wife of the well-known academician of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Pavlo Haidutsky.
As investigators found, the specified apartment is located in a prestigious government quarter, though in a building from an older departmental fund. Similar properties in this area are rented out at an average price of about 30 thousand hryvnias per month—primarily due to its exclusive location. The deputy does not own property in Kyiv, and in his name are only a few land plots in Poltava region.
His faction colleague Kyrylo Nesterenko is officially registered in a dormitory of the Ministry of Education and Science in Dnipro. Since September 2019 year this 32-year-old deputy rents a fairly large apartment—106,9 square meters—owned by Oleksiy Kolesnichenko. The funds for this housing are also drawn from the state budget. The exact location of this property could not be determined.
Another Servant of the People member, Oleksandr Kunaev, takes a budget subsidy to live in one of Kyiv’s most expensive and luxurious residential complexes. Since January 2024 year he rents an apartment of 113,6 square meters in Sergei Korzhov’s building. This is in the prestigious residential complex “Boulevard of Fountains,” located in the heart of Pechersk district.
Clearly, Kunaev does not have enough of the 19,5 thousand hryvnias the government allocates: according to active listings on real estate platforms, renting a dwelling of a similar size in this CBD tower costs at least 76 thousand hryvnias per month. Before joining the Verkhovna Rada, Kunaev worked in leadership positions at JT Active Motor Plant. He is 34 years old.
Deputy Anton Shvachko (also from Servant of the People) rents housing of 60,2 square meters in Marina Evtushenko. The editors managed to determine that this apartment is located in the very center of the capital on Institutskaya Street (Alley of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred), just a few minutes’ walk from the parliament building.
Pavlo Yakimenko from Servant of the People has since January 2025 rented a gigantic apartment of 156,7 square meters. The owner of the property is 67-year-old agribusinessman Hennadiy Lapitsky. Among Lapitsky’s properties are at least 53 real estate objects, including luxury apartments in Kyiv’s most elite complexes: Busov Hill, Novopecherski Lypky, and PecherSKY. The total value of Lapitsky’s real estate is estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.
The apartment with 156,7 square meters is located in the Busov Hill complex, where monthly rent for similar spaces currently starts at 1,5 thousand dollars.
Not only luxury apartments: where else do deputies live
At the same time, a number of lawmakers in their official declarations indicate considerably more modest options—renting ordinary hotel rooms or small spaces. Some deputies also opt for quite restrained housing without claims to luxury.
Specifically, Servant of the People member Oleg Bondarenko rents a relatively compact apartment of 57,7 square meters. He also owns an apartment in Kharkiv since 1999 year. His colleague Ihor Fris has long lived in a regular hotel room (likely in the state hotel Kyiv, located near the Verkhovna Rada). Deputy Anatoliy Kostyukh rented an apartment of 63,4 square meters.
Meanwhile, some deputies who previously actively used compensation later voluntarily refused this practice and stopped applying for budget funds. For example, Yevhen Petrynyak (Servant of the People) received housing payments until the end of 2022 year, but did not submit a new application for 2023 year.
According to declarations, the deputy and his wife own 36 real estate objects, including 12 residential buildings. Moreover, in September 2022 year the politician’s wife, Iryna, became the official owner of a foreign apartment measuring 130,84 square meters in Spain.
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