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Media group "Trukha Ukraina" (Trukha Ukraine) donated an apartment to a family of internal migrants from Lysychansk who lost their home and after evacuation spent four years in a 12-meter room of a former monastery in Lviv region. The housing was purchased with the group's own funds from the proceeds of the media group within the project "Trukha Gifts Housing".
Founder and owner of "Trukha" Maksym Lavrynienko handed over the keys to the apartment to Olha and Yevhen, who are raising two children: a teenage son and a daughter born during the full-scale war. Their own apartment remained in the occupied Lysychansk and was destroyed as a result of a Russian shelling.
Olha has had a disability since childhood, category II due to a severe form of diabetes mellitus and constantly requires treatment, which takes a large part of the family budget. Yevhen is a veteran who participated in combat twice and suffered a concussion.
After evacuation, the family of four settled in a room of 12 square meters in a former monastery in the Lviv region. The family lived this way for four years.
"We lost not only the dwelling. We lost the meaning of life. Not a single photo remained," Olha wrote in her application to participate in the project.
In the summer, the family moved to their own apartment, which Trukha purchased for them. Maksym Lavrynienko personally visited the housewarming.
The project began with help to Kharkiv families.
Kharkiv resident Lavrynienko launched the project "Trukha Gifts Housing" in 2024 year. Then the media group bought apartments for two Kharkiv families with children who lost housing due to shelling at the start of the full-scale war.
For one of these families, having their own apartment allowed them to reunite after forced separation: a mother with two children was abroad and could return to her husband when the family again received a place to live.
In 2025, a large refugee family from Kherson region received housing, having endured occupation. A family with a small child, elderly relatives, and pets spent months seeking shelter in various regions of Ukraine. They were purchased a house with a garden for them.
Another apartment the media group bought for pensioner Zoya Dmytrivna and her 12-year-old grandson Matviy. They evacuated from the Bakhmut district to Kyiv at the start of the full-scale invasion, and their house in Donetsk region was completely destroyed. The woman raises her grandson alone, and Matviy has vision impairment. They rented housing, and almost all state assistance went to paying for it. Now the family lives in their own home in the capital.
Apartments are bought from the media group’s profits.
For acquiring housing within "Trukha Gifts Housing" the media group does not run fundraising campaigns. Apartments and houses are paid for from the profits of the media group’s activities.
Work with each family begins with an application. People fill out a Google form, describe their situation, and attach documents. The team verifies the information and, if necessary, clarifies details. According to Lavrynienko, he personally reads all applications.
Priority in selection is given to large families, single parents, people with disabilities, and families of fallen or missing defenders. At the same time, each request is considered individually, and people in the most difficult life circumstances are helped.
From application to handing over the keys.
After selecting a family, the team moves on to finding a property. Real estate agents, lawyers, and notaries are involved. The team reviews options, assesses the condition of the housing, checks the owner and documents, and negotiates with sellers.
The final choice of apartment or house remains with the family who will live there.
The search does not always end with the first chosen apartment. According to Lavrynienko, there were cases when the parties already agreed to purchase, but the seller backed out at the last moment. Then the team had to return to the search.
After choosing housing, they verify the real estate documents and finalize the deal, and Maksym Lavrynienko personally hands over the keys from hand to hand. The media group’s team and its owner stay in touch with the families after handing over the keys and the families move into their new homes.
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