Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev received 4,5 million from the state to improve living conditions while his family owns five apartments

Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev received 4,5 million from the state to improve living conditions while his family owns five apartments

In May 2026 the Kyiv City Military Administration approved the distribution of a subsidy from the state budget to district councils to compensate for housing entitled to persons who defended the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. “Housing entitled to receive” means housing that the state provides free of charge to citizens who are on the housing register and need improved living conditions. One of those who received such compensation turned out to be the deputy chief of staff of the Land Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev. And this despite the fact that his family owns several apartments, and a prior review by the NACP found false information in the military officer’s declaration.

According to official data, in June 2026 Yurii Raltsev received a cash compensation payment in the amount of 4 549 068 hryvnias from the Solomianskyi District State Administration in Kyiv.

The distribution of subsidies was approved by the Kyiv City Military Administration. A total of 548 million 290 thousand hryvnias were distributed among the district councils, 62 million of which were allocated to Solomianskyi District.

As of now, Raltsev’s declarations have been removed from public access. But journalists were able to analyze the National Agency on Corruption Prevention’s audit of the military officer’s financial reporting for 2023, which revealed violations of anti-corruption legislation and false information.

One of the assets that may have been acquired improperly is the Kyiv apartment of the military officer’s father, Oleksandr Raltsev. The residence was purchased for 1,22 million hryvnias in April 2023. Now an apartment of identical area in the same building in Rusanivka is being sold for 120 thousand dollars, or 5,4 million hryvnias. That is several times more than the amount the father allegedly paid.

In explanations to anti-corruption authorities, Yurii Raltsev insisted that he gave part of the money for the apartment purchase—namely 620 thousand—to his father. He claimed these funds were received as a social payment for health reasons. However, this could not be verified.

Besides the apartment in Kyiv’s Rusanivka, the Raltsev family has at least four other residences. And that clearly does not correspond to the means of a person who should be eligible for state-funded housing improvements.

The NACP audit revealed that Raltsev’s father acquired a house in Zaporizhzhia in 2015, and in 2016 purchased an apartment in Kyiv near a large forest-park area. In December 2022 another apartment in Zaporizhzhia was added to the family’s assets.

The latter was bought with funds from a loan from Ihor Mamula. Mamula likely worked at the state enterprise “Hotel Kozatskyi,” which previously fell under the management of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. In 2024 the hotel in the very center of Kyiv was sold at auction to a firm of Vasyl Bicher, a deputy of the Chernivtsi Regional Council.

In 2021 Ihor Mamula, who lent the Raltsevs money to buy the Zaporizhzhia apartment, sued Hotel Kozatskyi for unpaid wages in the amount of 69 thousand hryvnias. Both Mamula and Brigadier General Raltsev are registered in Zaporizhzhia.

From the declaration of the head of the Luhansk Regional Territorial Recruitment Center, Yurii Poluliashchenko—which, unlike Raltsev’s reports, remains publicly available—it became known that he lives in the brigadier general’s apartment. Poluliashchenko received the right to use it in 2022. Obviously, this is not the apartment the general’s father bought with Mamula’s loan. It is another residence owned by Raltsev himself.

Poluliashchenko, a Territorial Recruitment Center official, was a member of the Party of Regions. In 2010 he was elected a deputy of the Starobilsk District Council of Luhansk region. In 2019 he ran as an independent candidate in constituency No.113 in Luhansk. Central Election Commission records indicate that Poluliashchenko is a military commissar who resides in Luhansk. Although Luhansk has been under Russian occupation since 2014.

Poluliashchenko and his wife are originally from Starobilsk in Luhansk region. The family owns a lot of land and real estate there. However, the city has been occupied by the Russian Federation since the spring of 2022.

The court registry shows that Yurii Raltsev paid alimony for a child to his wife, Anna Lymonova. The couple has a daughter together. From photos of the woman on social networks, it can be inferred that she continues to live in Zaporizhzhia while the child’s father moved to Kyiv. In 2025 Lymonova published a photo, presumably from a gymnastics competition, where their daughter stands next to then-head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Ihor Fedorov. Since September 2026 Fedorov has headed the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure of Ukraine.

In October 2018, when Lymonova and Raltsev apparently were still married, the woman purchased an apartment in Zaporizhzhia. As stated in court materials, at the time of signing the purchase agreement the seller’s son was registered in the residence and had not deregistered by the beginning of 2019. So Raltsev’s wife sought his deregistration from the disputed apartment through the court.

Previously Raltsev, like his apartment tenant Poluliashchenko from the Party of Regions, worked at a Territorial Recruitment Center. He, or a namesake, was interested in football and played on the amateur football team “Vivat-Invest.” He is also a member of the executive committee of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Football Association.

A company with the same name is owned by the former deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Tarasenko. “Vivat-Invest” and “Vivat-Bud” have operated in the construction market for a long time.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tarasenko’s group of companies has actively won government tenders for building shelters, underground schools, and so on.

Thus, the family of Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev owns two apartments in Kyiv and three apartments plus a house in Zaporizhzhia. Can a military officer with such property be considered eligible for state compensation for housing as a person in need of improved living conditions? The answer is obvious.