Large-family MP Gets Divorced: Details of the Scandalous Case

Member of Parliament Oleksandr Koltunovych is 38 years old. In 2019 he was first elected to the Rada on the party list of Opposition Platform — For Life. In the VIII convocation of parliament he was a paid assistant to a deputy from the Opposition Bloc, who is now a deputy from OPZZh, Vasyl Nimchenko. This is reported in the Hlavkom publication “Wave of divorces in the Rada. A large-family MP is fleeing from his pregnant wife, and a Servant of the People MP is demanding child support from Saakashvili.”

In his declaration for 2019 Oleksandr Koltunovych listed one common child with his wife Svitlana Kubalska-Koltunovych. By the end of 2024, when the politician went to court to divorce, he already had four minor children.

In his lawsuit the MP explained why he wants to end the nine-year marriage. He claimed that life together with his wife did not work out due to a lack of mutual understanding, loss of feelings, incompatibility of characters, and different views on family values. He insisted they do not run a shared household. He argued that further life together and preserving the marriage is impossible and contrary to their interests.

The MP’s wife did not attend the court hearing. However, she filed a petition with sensational content: she is pregnant and attached a copy of an extract from her medical record. She also stated that she lives with her husband and that they do maintain a shared household.

In June 2025 the capital court refused to grant the Koltunovychs a divorce, “because dissolving the marriage would be contrary to the interests of the spouses and the interests of their minor children.”

Despite the fact that in the declaration for 2025 another child named Emir appeared for Oleksandr Koltunovych (before him were born Elina, Iola, Damir, and Teona), the politician again applied to the court seeking a divorce. At the time of preparing this material the judiciary had not yet spoken its final word (the next hearing is scheduled for 23 October).

We add that from a previous marriage Koltunovych has a son, also named Oleksandr, whom he also reports annually in his declarations.

A telling detail. For the first time during Koltunovych’s parliamentary term his declaration for 2025 included an entry for using a hotel room. It belongs to a state enterprise of the Rada apparatus, and the deputy began renting the room in December 2025. This may indicate that a rift has indeed appeared between the Koltunovych spouses.

Recall that Servant of the People MP Yelyzaveta Yasko has been in court since April 2026 with her common-law husband, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. She is seeking to deprive him of parental rights and to recover child support.