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

The sister of Tymur Mindich, a businessman and former close associate of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who is wanted by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), has lived for ten years in an apartment in central 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 Liubov Mindich, Tymur Mindich's sister, may be married to 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 a company named Ekobereniche Rus and has a joint business with the Region group of companies, which works with Russian oil giants such as Rosneft and Tyumenneftegaz.

The journalists found that Liubov Mindich has had orders from Moscow shops delivered to an address on Malaya Bronnaya Street in central Moscow since at least 2014.

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

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

Abroskina is married to Nikolai Abroskin, a Russian general who headed the Federal Agency for Special Construction at the Russian Defence Ministry in the 2000s.

Vladimir Putin was prime minister at the time. When Putin again became head of state, he appointed Abroskin as first deputy head of the Presidential Administration. He stepped down from the post in December 2020."

More details: The journalists said they had approached the flat's owners and Liubov Mindich and her family for comment, but no one 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.

Mindich's sister was mentioned in the recordings released by NABU in November last year. She was said to be planning to buy a house in Switzerland, and so US$6 million was to be transferred in two instalments.

Liubov Mindich told Slidstvo.Info journalists in November 2025 that she remained in contact with her brother but said she was "not prepared 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 at the homes of 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 tracked Mindich down in Israel. In an interview, he said he had been subjected to a major media attack and refused to comment on the legal aspects of the case.

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