A drone manufacturer purchased a confiscated apartment in Kyiv that had belonged to a Russian propagandist
The State Property Fund of Ukraine held an auction on the Prozorro e-auction platform to sell a confiscated apartment belonging to Russian designer and propagandist Artemy Lebedev.
The winning bidder was the company “Center for Unmanned Systems Research”—the manufacturer of the Ukrainian-made “General Chereshnya” drones. The 138-square-meter apartment, which overlooks the Golden Gate and is located on Yaroslaviv Val Street in Kyiv, cost the buyer 13.5 million hryvnias.
The Russian blogger’s residence was confiscated by court order in 2023, while Lebedev had been placed under National Security and Defense Council sanctions as early as January 2022 for years of spreading disinformation and supporting propaganda against Ukraine. According to the State Property Fund of Ukraine (FDMU), the funds seized during the privatization will be fully allocated to the Fund for Eliminating the Consequences of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.
The starting price for the lot at the auction was 10.58 million hryvnias. In the final round of bidding, the company “General Chereshnya” offered 13.5 million and one hryvnia, which exceeded the bid of the other contender—Atomenergomashbud LLC—by just one hryvnia. The new owner of the property is a Ukrainian defense-tech company that mass-produces UAVs, including FPV drones and interceptor drones, and has 33 codified products in its portfolio.
Source: “Prozorro. Sales.”
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