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In May 2026 the Kyiv City Military Administration approved the distribution of a subsidy from the state budget to district councils to compensate persons entitled to receive housing who defended the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. “Housing entitled to receive” refers to housing that the state provides free of charge to citizens who are on the housing waiting list 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 previous NABU check showed false information in the officer’s declaration.
This is 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 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, of which 62 million were allocated to the Solomianskyi district.
As of now, Raltsev’s declarations have been removed from public access. But journalists were able to analyze the financial report audit of the officer for 2023 year conducted by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. It found violations of anti-corruption legislation and false data.
One of the assets that may have been obtained improperly is the capital apartment of the officer’s father, Oleksandr Raltsev. The dwelling was purchased for 1,22 million hryvnias in April 2023. Currently, an apartment of identical size 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 the anti-corruption authorities, Yurii Raltsev claimed that he gave part of the money for the apartment purchase, namely 620 thousand, to his father. These funds were allegedly received by him as a social payment due to his health condition. However, these claims could not be confirmed.
In addition to 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 needs state-funded improvement of housing conditions.
The NABU audit revealed that Raltsev’s father purchased a house in Zaporizhzhia in 2015, and in 2016 he acquired an apartment in Kyiv near a large forest-park area. In December 2022 the family acquired another apartment in Zaporizhzhia.
The last was purchased with funds from a loan from Ihor Mamula. Mamula likely worked at the state enterprise “Hotel Kozatskyi,” which previously belonged to the management sphere 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 Chernivtsi Regional Council deputy Vasyl Bicher.
In 2021 Ihor Mamula, who lent the Raltsevs money to buy the apartment in Zaporizhzhia, 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 accessible, it became known that he resides in the brigadier general’s apartment. Poluliashchenko obtained the right to use it in 2022. Obviously, this is not the apartment the general’s father bought with Mamula’s loan. This is another residence owned by Raltsev himself.
Territorial recruitment officer Poluliashchenko 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 region. 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, like his wife, is 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.
Court records show that Yurii Raltsev paid child support to his wife, Anna Lymonova. The couple has a daughter together. From photos of the woman on social networks, one can conclude 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 Restoration 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 a seller’s son was registered in the dwelling and had not deregistered by the beginning of 2019. So Raltsev’s wife obtained his deregistration from the disputed apartment through the court.
Previously Raltsev, like the tenant of his apartment Poluliashchenko from the Party of Regions, worked in the Territorial Recruitment Center. He, or someone with the same full name, 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 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 began actively winning state 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 and a house in Zaporizhzhia. Can a serviceman with such property be considered eligible for state compensation for housing as a person who needs improvement of living conditions? The answer is obvious.
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