Former head of the Volyn Regional State Administration Yuriy Pohulyako officially became a pensioner after his dismissal in 2024 and has already received over 200,000 hryvnias in pension. Although the official's declaration does not include any land plots, apartments, or an elite car fleet, his family savings have increased fourfold in five years.
According to biographical data, Pohulyayko celebrated his 46th birthday on November 12, and, thanks to his service in the internal affairs bodies and tax police, he received the right to a pension for years of service. The official, who led the region for almost five years, earned 1.32 million hryvnias in 2024 alone, and his wife, who works as a notary, another 890 thousand hryvnias. To this was added a severance payment of 336 thousand hryvnias. As a result, the total family income for the past year amounted to almost 2.76 million hryvnias.
Interestingly, Pohulyayko left the Volyn Regional State Administration without any real estate, although he previously had an apartment in Luhansk, which he presumably managed to “get rid of.” His wife, however, still owns 98.4 square meters of non-residential real estate in the same city.
Pohulyayko also managed to update his cars. In 2021, a used Audi disappeared from his declaration, but instead he declared 1.6 million hryvnias in income from the sale of “movable property.” His wife, in turn, purchased a BMW K1300S motorcycle in 2021, which she sold in 2023 for 500 thousand hryvnias. After that, she bought a Triumph Bonneville T100 for 221 thousand hryvnias.
The Pohulyaiky family's bank account looks even more interesting. If at the beginning of his career in Volyn there were only a few hundred thousand hryvnias, now the deposits show $40,280 and 1.376 million hryvnias. In addition, the ex-governor's declaration indicates another 490 thousand hryvnias in the category of "cash assets", which were transferred to management.
Yuriy Pohulyayko served as the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration from December 2, 2019 to November 8, 2024. After his dismissal, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Ivan Rudnytskyi, the former head of the SBU department of the Volyn region, to this position.
Against the backdrop of these financial manipulations, a logical question arises: does Yuriy Pohulyako really still consider himself a "modest civil servant," or has he simply learned to skillfully hide his assets?
