While Zelenskyy’s former business partner allegedly ran a $100 million kickback scheme inside Ukraine’s nuclear energy company, his sister was living in the Moscow apartment of a Russian general who spent his career building things for Russia’s Defense Ministry and managing property for Vladimir Putin.
The flat belongs to Yelena Abroskina, wife of General Nikolay Abroskin, who served as director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction.
That is the finding of a joint investigation by Slidstvo.Info and Dnipro.media, which traced Liubov Mindich—sister of fugitive businessman Tymur Mindich—to an apartment on Malaya Bronnaya Street near Moscow’s exclusive Patriarch’s Ponds neighborhood.
The flat belongs to Yelena Abroskina, wife of General Nikolay Abroskin, who served as director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction under Russia’s Defense Ministry from 2004 to 2011, then as first deputy to the Manager of Affairs of the President of Russia from 2015 to 2020.
The complicating connection
Tymur Mindich co-owns Kvartal-95, the comedy studio behind Servant of the People—the TV show that made Zelenskyy a household name and launched his presidential campaign. NABU accuses Mindich of orchestrating a kickback scheme at state nuclear operator Energoatom that cost Ukraine an estimated $100 million.
Mindich fled Ukraine hours before NABU raids and was later tracked down in Israel.
The scandal forced the resignations of Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk, then brought down chief of staff Andriy Yermak. Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on his own former associate. Mindich fled Ukraine hours before NABU raids and was later tracked down in Israel, where he refused to return.
The corruption charges showed stolen money. The Moscow apartment shows where the family sat while the money was stolen—inside Russia’s presidential infrastructure, throughout the full-scale war.
In a general’s flat since Russia seized Crimea
Liubov Mindich had been ordering deliveries from Moscow’s TsUM department store to the Malaya Bronnaya address since at least 2014—the year Russia annexed Crimea and launched its war in the Donbas. Russian medical service profiles still listed the same apartment as her residence in 2024.
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Mindich’s sister was mentioned in connection with a planned $6 million house purchase in Switzerland.
Her husband appears to be Russian businessman Andrey Zhuravlyov, with whom she has three children—all Russian citizens, according to the investigation. Zhuravlyov has business ties to the Region group of companies, which cooperates with Russian oil giants Rosneft and Tyumenneftegaz.
Liubov Mindich confirmed she remained in contact with her brother.
In NABU recordings released in November, Mindich’s sister was mentioned in connection with a planned $6 million house purchase in Switzerland, with the money to be transferred in two installments.
When Slidstvo.Info journalists asked Liubov Mindich about the Swiss property in November 2025, she confirmed she remained in contact with her brother but said she was “not prepared to discuss” the purchase.
The lie, not the ties
Having Russian family connections is not a crime. Ukraine’s own Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, was born in Vladimir Oblast, Russia; his parents and brother still live there. What matters in the Mindich case is the concealment.
Tymur Mindich told Slidstvo.Info journalists that his sister “has no property in Russia and does not conduct any activity there.” Delivery records, medical registrations, and property ownership documents say otherwise—and if this was hidden, the question is what else was. And why.
