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In May 2026, the Kyiv City Military Administration approved the allocation of a subsidy from the state budget to district councils to compensate persons eligible to receive housing who defended the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. “Housing eligible to receive” means housing that the state provides free of charge to citizens who are on the housing registry and need improved living conditions. One of those who received such compensation turned out to be the deputy chief of staff of the Command of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev. And this despite the fact that his family owns several apartments, and a previous NACP check showed false data in the officer’s declaration.
This was reported by the Antikor portal
According to official data, in June 2026 Yurii Raltsev received a cash compensation payment in the amount of 4 549 068 hryvnias from the Solomianska District State Administration in Kyiv.
The Kyiv City Military Administration approved the distribution of the subsidies. In total, 548 million 290 thousand hryvnias were distributed among district councils, 62 million of which were allocated to the Solomianskyi district.
Currently Raltsev’s declarations have been removed from public access. But journalists were able to analyze the financial report inspection of the officer for 2023, carried out by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. It found violations of anti-corruption legislation and false information.
One of the assets that may have been acquired improperly is the capital apartment of the officer’s father, Oleksandr Raltsev. The dwelling 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 claimed that he gave part of the money for the apartment purchase — namely 620 thousand — to his father. He said these funds were received by him as a social benefit for health reasons. However, this could not be confirmed.
In addition to the apartment in Kyiv’s Rusanivka, the Raltsev family has at least four more residences. And that clearly does not match the means of a person who should be receiving state-funded housing improvements.
The NACP inspection revealed that Raltsev’s father purchased a house in Zaporizhzhia in 2015, and in 2016 he bought an apartment in Kyiv near a large forest-park area. In December 2022 another apartment in Zaporizhzhia was acquired into the family’s ownership.
The last property was purchased with funds from a loan from Ihor Mamula. Mamula likely worked at the state enterprise “Hotel Kozatskyi,” which used to be 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 company of Vasyl Bicher, a deputy of the Chernivtsi regional council.
In 2021, Ihor Mamula, who lent the Raltsevs money to buy the apartment in Zaporizhzhia, sued Hotel Kozatskyi for unpaid wages amounting to 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 is known that he lives in the brigadier general’s apartment. Poluliashchenko gained the right to use it in 2022. Obviously, this is not the apartment that the general’s father bought with Mamula’s loan. It is another residence owned by Raltsev himself.
Poluliashchenko, like his wife, is originally from Starobilsk in Luhansk region. He 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 data indicate that Poluliashchenko is a military commissar who lives in Luhansk, although Luhansk has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
Poluliashchenko and his wife are 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.
Court records show that Yurii Raltsev paid child support to his wife Anna Lymonova. The couple have a daughter together. From photos of the woman on social networks, it can be concluded that she continues to live in Zaporizhzhia, while the child’s father moved to Kyiv. In 2025 Lymonova published a photo, likely from a gymnastics competition, where their daughter stands next to the then head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov. Since September 2026 Fedorov has headed the State Agency for Recovery and Infrastructure of Ukraine.
In October 2018, when Lymonova and Raltsev were apparently 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 dwelling and had not moved out by the beginning of 2019. So Raltsev’s wife forced his removal from the disputed apartment through the courts.
Earlier Raltsev, like his tenant Poluliashchenko of the Party of Regions, worked at the Territorial Recruitment Center. He, or someone with his exact same name, was interested in football and played on the amateur team “Vivat-Invest.” He is also a member of the executive committee of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Football Association.
A firm with the same name is owned by former deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration Volodymyr Tarasenko. “Vivat-Invest” and “Vivat-Bud” have long operated in the construction market.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tarasenko’s group of companies has actively been winning state tenders for building shelters, underground schools, and so on.
Thus, the family of Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev has two apartments in Kyiv and three apartments plus a house in Zaporizhzhia. Can a serviceman with such property be considered eligible for state compensation for housing as a person who needs improved living conditions? The answer is obvious.
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