Mindich's sister lives in Moscow flat owned by Russian general close to Putin, journalists say

The sister of Tymur Mindich, a businessman and a former close associate of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been sought by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), has lived for ten years in a flat in the centre of Moscow owned by the family of a Russian general and former senior official in Russia's presidential administration.

Source: an investigation by Slidstvo.Info, a team of independent Ukrainian journalists; Dnipro.media, an independent Ukrainian digital media outlet

Details: The journalists established that the husband of Liubov Mindich, Tymur Mindich's sister, may be Russian businessman Andrey Zhuravlyov, with whom she has three children who share the same surname.

The children, like their father, are Russian citizens, the journalists said.

Zhuravlyov owns a 70% stake in the company Ekobereniche Rus and has a joint business with the group of companies Region, which works with Russian oil giants such as Rosneft and Tyumenneftegaz.

The journalists found out that since at least 2014 Liubov Mindich had ordered deliveries from Moscow shops to an address on Malaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow.

As of 2024, the same flat was listed as her place of residence in accounts on Russian medical services.

Quote: "According to an extract obtained by the journalists, the flat, which is more than 180 square metres, has been owned since 2009 by Olena Abroskina.

Her husband is Nikolay Pavlovich Abroskin, a Russian general. In the 2000s, he worked as director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction of the Russian Defence Ministry.

Back then, Vladimir Putin was [Russia's] prime minister. When Putin again became head of state, he appointed Abroskin first deputy head of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation. He left the post in December 2020."

More details: The journalists said they had tried to get a comment from the flat's owners, Liubov Mindich and her family, but no one had responded to their calls or messages. Tymur Mindich told the journalists that his sister has no property in Russia and does not conduct any activity there.

Meanwhile, his sister was mentioned in recordings released in November last year by NABU. The recordings said she had allegedly planned to buy a house in Switzerland, with US$6 million to be transferred in two installments.

In her comment to Slidstvo.Info journalists in November 2025, Liubov Mindich confirmed she remained in contact with her brother but said she was "not ready to discuss" the house in Switzerland.

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Background:

• On the morning of 10 November, it emerged that NABU was carrying out searches involving businessman Tymur Mindich and the then Minister of Justice, Herman Halushchenko. On the same day, Ukrainska Pravda sources reported that Mindich had fled abroad just hours before the searches began.
• Later that day, NABU announced that it had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme involving the embezzlement of funds in the energy sector and released audio recordings of conversations between the suspects.
• On 13 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted a decision by the National Security and Defence Council imposing sanctions on Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman.
• On 22 November, Ukraine put Mindich and Tsukerman on its wanted list.
• In December, Ukrainska Pravda found Mindich in Israel, and in an interview he said that he is facing a major media attack and refused to comment on the legal aspects of the case.

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