The sister of Tymur Mindich — a former associate of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who is wanted by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) — used an apartment in central Moscow for about 10 years. The property belongs to the family of a Russian army general and former senior official in Russia’s presidential administration, according to a joint investigation by Slidstvo.Info and Dnipro.media.
The journalists identified the apartment in a building on Malaya Bronnaya Street in an affluent residential area near Moscow’s Patriarch’s Ponds. Multiple pieces of evidence point to Lyubov Mindich’s long-term use of the address.
Data from leaked Russian client databases showed orders from Moscow’s TsUM department store placed by a woman matching Lyubov Mindich’s birth date, first name, and patronymic — Lyubov Mikhailovna — but under the surname Zhuravlyova. In April 2024, she ordered goods worth 105,000 Russian rubles ($1,129), followed by purchases of 49,000 ($538), 44,000 ($484), and 94,000 rubles ($1,033) the next month.
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The Russian phone number linked to Zhuravlyova in the TsUM orders also appears in a leaked database from a Russian email service, where the client from 2016 and 2017 is listed as MINDICH LUBA MIHAYLOVNA.
Investigators determined that Lyubov Mindich’s husband is likely Russian businessman Andrey Zhuravlyov, with whom she has three children sharing his surname.
The children and husband hold Russian citizenship. Andrey Zhuravlyov owns 70% of the company ECOBERENICHE RUS and has a joint business with the Region group of companies, which cooperates with Russian oil giants such as Rosneft and Tyumeneftegaz.
Another piece of evidence that this is indeed the sister of the fugitive businessman is that the woman’s email appears in another leaked database—this one belonging to clients of the Russian ride-hailing service Kiwitaxi. In that database, the email is linked to a usernamed Timur Mindich.
Since at least 2014, Lyubov Mindich ordered deliveries from Moscow stores to the Malaya Bronnaya Street address. The same apartment is listed as her residence in Russian medical service profiles as of 2024.
According to an extract obtained by the journalists, the apartment of more than 180 square meters has belonged to Yelena Abroskina since 2009.
Her husband, Nikolai Pavlovich Abroskin, served in the 2000s as director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction under Russia’s Defense Ministry. At that time, Vladimir Putin was the prime minister. When Putin returned as president, he appointed Nikolai Abroskin first deputy head of the Presidential Affairs Directorate. Abroskin left that post in December 2020.
The journalists attempted to obtain comments from the apartment owners, Lyubov Mindich and her family, but received no responses to calls or messages. Tymur Mindich told the journalists that his sister has no property in Russia and conducts no activity there. “Don’t touch my sister. She’s my sister after all,” Mindich said in a comment to journalist Mykhailo Tkach.
At the same time, Mindich’s sister was mentioned in NABU recordings released last November. They allegedly indicated that she planned to buy a house in Switzerland, with 6 million intended for transfer in two payments. In a November comment to Slidstvo.Info, Lyubov Mindich confirmed she maintains contact with her brother but said she was “not ready to discuss” the Swiss house.
The revelations come amid the “Mindichgate” scandal that erupted late last fall. It exposed how funds that could have supported Ukraine’s energy sector allegedly ended up in the pockets of a circle of people led by Tymur Mindich, a longtime acquaintance and former business partner of President Zelenskyy.
