“Novopecherski Lypky,” the Fugitive’s Porsche and 18 Thousand Hectares for Hunting: Journalists Found the Secret Assets of Minister Vitalii Kim

The family of the new head of the Ministry for Veterans Affairs, Vitalii Kim, may be using a number of assets that do not appear in his declarations. These include, in particular, a new apartment and a parking space in the high-end residential complex Novopecherski Lypky, a Porsche, and 18 thousand hectares of hunting grounds in the Cherkasy region. This is reported in an investigation by Bihus.Info.

Vitalii Kim came into politics from business, notably development. In 2019 he worked in the Servant of the People campaign headquarters in the Mykolaiv region, and in November of 2020 he became head of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration. He gained popularity at the start of the full-scale invasion thanks to defending Mykolaiv region and his daily addresses that began with the well-known phrase “Good evening, we’re from Ukraine.” This July Kim became Minister for Veterans Affairs. Journalists therefore decided to check the lifestyle of the new cabinet member.

Vitalii Kim, Minister for Veterans Affairs

Interestingly, the most expensive assets that journalists found are missing from the politician’s declaration. For example, back in the summer of 2025 the company of Kim’s wife, Media Grupa, purchased a large apartment of over one hundred square meters in the Novopecherski Lypky residential complex in Kyiv. The firm also bought a parking space there at the same time. According to journalists’ estimates, the apartment without renovation and the parking spot could have cost roughly 350 thousand dollars at that time. However, according to the YouControl analytics system, the company’s public financial reports were zero for years or altogether absent.

Yuliia and Vitalii Kim

Journalists found that Kim and his family members may have been using housing in the mentioned complex. At the end of August, Bihus.Info noticed a Volkswagen Touareg with cover plates in the Novopecherski Lypky parking lot, similar to the one the minister rents. A few days later that same vehicle left the complex, and a man resembling the head of the Ministry for Veterans Affairs was sitting in the passenger seat.

a man resembling Vitalii Kim in a Volkswagen Touareg near Lypky

In addition, on the parking space registered to Yuliia Kim’s company in Novopecherski Lypky, journalists spotted a Porsche Macan, which the woman received a fine for back in 2024. The car is not listed in Kim’s declarations and is registered to the construction company S-Develop of Roman Serbenov. Journalists previously reported how this developer abandoned construction projects in Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia and left for Poland. According to Kim, Serbenov worked as a director in his construction companies in Ukraine. They also co-led the Mykolaiv basketball club.

Porsche Macan used by Yuliia Kim

In a comment to Bihus.Info Kim said he does not use either the apartment or the parking space in Novopecherski Lypky. He said the apartment is registered to his wife’s company, which allegedly took it on credit. When journalists asked about the company’s “zero” financial reporting and its ability to repay the loan, Kim replied that “financial reporting exists in Yuliia’s sole proprietorship, and the money was also in the declaration.”

Meanwhile, according to journalists, Kim’s savings in the declaration for 2025 actually did not decrease; on the contrary, they increased by about 6,5 million hryvnias compared to 2024. At the same time, the official annual income of the official’s family for 2025 was almost 7 million hryvnias before taxes, which means they managed to save almost the entire annual family income. There is no record of housing purchase expenses in the declaration.

Regarding the car, the official claims his wife rented it for less than 180 days, so the vehicle would not have to appear in the declaration upon his resignation from the regional administration. He also added that before the rental the car was not in permanent use but used “periodically.” At the same time, Serbenov himself told journalists that his firm bought the Porsche back in 2022 and rented it to Kim’s wife.

“180 days” Kim also explained the appearance near Novopecherski Lypky of another vehicle — a second VW Touareg that belongs to Kim’s ex-wife, Olha. Earlier Kim rented that vehicle from a Mykolaiv firm, and then it transferred into his ex-wife’s ownership. In recent months the Touareg received fines and appeared near the Kyiv complex. The latter could further confirm that the Kims lived in Lypky, at least at the time the car was recorded. However, the official himself says his ex-wife is outside Ukraine and that he does not use the car.

Volkswagen Touareg belonging to Kim’s ex-wife near Lypky

An interesting situation also arose around another asset. This concerns the Kaniv Left-Bank Hunting Farm located in the Cherkasy region, which holds 18 thousand hectares of hunting grounds. Last summer the enterprise acquired two new owners who, journalists believe, may be nominal. The fact is Vitalii Kim has repeatedly told various media in interviews that hunting is his hobby. And in the summer of 2025 the Kaniv Left-Bank Hunting Farm changed owners. In particular, a share was purchased by Oleksandr Stepanov — a long-time business partner of Kim who for years also appeared in joint companies with both the former and current wife of the new head of the Ministry for Veterans Affairs. Stepanov told journalists he does not like hunting, “hasn’t really been to this hunting base even once,” and does not know his new business partner Andrii Halkin. A person with the same full name served as an assistant to MP Roman Ivanisov.

conversation with Oleksandr Stepanov

At the same time, Kim told Bihus.Info that he met Roman Ivanisov back in 2020 — and that this meeting took place while hunting. The official also said he visited the mentioned hunting base to hunt several times — allegedly “at the invitation of friends.” Stepanov added that Kim might not inform him about his visits to the base because Kim could arrive with people “he would not want to publicize.” According to journalists, Kim may have been accompanied there by the leader of the Servants faction in parliament, David Arakhamia. Overall, the situation around the hunting farm suggests that Stepanov and Halkin may be only nominal owners of an asset purchased in the interests of third parties.