Brigadier General Yuriy Raltsev received 4.5 million from the state to improve living conditions, having five apartments for the family

Brigadier General Yuriy Raltsev received 4.5 million from the state to improve living conditions, having five apartments for the family

In May 2026, the Kyiv City Military Administration approved the distribution of a subvention from the state budget to district councils to compensate for residential premises due to persons who defended the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. “Residential premises due for receipt” refers to housing that the state provides free of charge to citizens who are on the housing register and need improvement of living conditions. One of those who received such compensation turned out to be the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Yuriy Raltsev. This is despite the fact that his family already owns several apartments, and a previous NACP audit revealed false data in the serviceman’s declaration.

According to official data, in June 2026 Yuriy Raltsev received a monetary compensation payment of 4,549,068 hryvnias from the Solomyanskyi District State Administration in Kyiv.

The distribution of subventions was approved by the Kyiv City Military Administration. In total, 548 million 290 thousand hryvnias were allocated among district councils, of which 62 million were assigned to the Solomyansky district.

As of now, Raltsev’s declarations have been removed from public access. However, journalists were able to analyze the audit of the serviceman’s financial reporting for 2023 conducted by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. It revealed violations of anti-corruption legislation and false data.

One of the assets that may have been obtained unlawfully is the Kyiv apartment of the serviceman’s father, Oleksandr Raltsev. The apartment was purchased for 1.22 million hryvnias in April 2023. An apartment of the same size in the same building on Rusanivka is currently listed for sale at 120,000 dollars, or 5.4 million hryvnias — several times more than the amount allegedly paid by Raltsev’s father.

In his explanations to the anti-corruption authorities, Yuriy Raltsev claimed that he had transferred part of the money for the apartment purchase — namely 620,000 hryvnias — to his father. These funds were allegedly received as a social payment due to health reasons. However, it was not possible to confirm this information.

In addition to the apartment on Rusanivka in Kyiv, the Raltsov family owns at least four more residential properties. This clearly does not correspond to the assets of a person who needs to improve their living conditions at the expense of the state budget.

The mentioned NACP audit revealed that Raltsev’s father purchased a house in Zaporizhzhya in 2015 and an apartment in Kyiv near a large forest-park area in 2016. In December 2022, another apartment in Zaporizhzhya was acquired by the family.

The latter was purchased with funds borrowed from Ihor Mamula. Mamula reportedly worked at the state enterprise “Kozatsky Hotel,” which previously fell under the management of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. In 2024, the hotel in the very center of Kyiv was sold at auction to a company owned by Vasyl Bicher, a deputy of the Chernivtsi Regional Council.

In 2021, Ihor Mamula, who lent money to the Raltsovs for the purchase of the apartment in Zaporizhzhya, sued the “Kozatskyi” hotel for unpaid wages amounting to 69,000 hryvnias. Both Mamula and Brigadier General Raltsev are registered in Zaporizhzhya.

From the declaration of the head of the Luhansk Regional Territorial Recruitment Center, Yuriy Polulyashchenko — which, unlike Raltsev’s reports, remains publicly available — it became known that he lives in the brigadier general’s apartment. Polulyashchenko obtained the right to use it in 2022. Obviously, this is not the apartment purchased by the general’s father with Mamula’s loan. It is another property owned by Raltsov himself.

Territorial Recruitment Center officer Polulyashchenko was a member of the Party of Regions. In 2010, he was elected as a deputy to the Starobilsk District Council of Luhansk Region. In 2019, he ran as a self-nominated candidate in constituency No. 113 in Luhansk Region. According to the Central Election Commission data, Polulyashchenko is a military commissar residing in Luhansk. However, Luhansk has been under Russian occupation since 2014.

Polulyashchenko and his wife are originally from Starobilsk in Luhansk Region. The family owns significant amounts of land and real estate there. However, the city has been occupied by the Russian Federation since spring 2022.

Court records show that Yuriy Raltsev paid alimony for a child to his wife, Anna Limonova. The couple has a daughter together. Photos of the woman on social media suggest that she continues to live in Zaporizhzhya, while the father of her child has moved to Kyiv. In 2025, Limonova published photos, likely from gymnastics competitions, showing their daughter standing next to Ivan Fedorov, then head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration. Since September 2026, Fedorov has headed the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.

In October 2018, when Limonova and Raltsev were presumably still married, the woman purchased an apartment in Zaporizhzhya. According to court materials, at the time of signing the purchase agreement, the seller’s son was registered in the apartment and had not been deregistered by early 2019. Limonova therefore obtained his deregistration from the disputed apartment through the court.

Previously, Raltsev, like his tenant Polulyashchenko from the Party of Regions, worked in a Territorial Recruitment Center. He, or his namesake, was interested in football and played for the amateur football team “Vivat-Invest.” He is also a member of the executive committee of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Football Association.

A company with the same name is owned by former deputy head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Tarasenko. “Vivat-Invest” and “Vivat-Bud” have long operated in the construction market.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tarasenko’s group of companies has actively won state tenders for the construction of shelters, underground schools, and similar projects.

Thus, the family of Brigadier General Yuriy Raltsev owns two apartments in Kyiv and three apartments plus a house in Zaporizhzhya. Can it be considered that with such property a serviceman may claim compensation from the state for housing as a person in need of improved living conditions? The answer is obvious.