London is one of the most expensive capitals in the world. So it’s not surprising that the wealthiest Ukrainians have been choosing London to live, invest and hide in for several decades now. Journalists have already discovered the Hyde Park apartment owned by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s wealthiest oligarch, Viktor Pinchuk’s eye-wateringly expensive mansion in Kensington, the former Tube station owned by oligarch Dmytro Firtash, and the central London flat linked to Serhii Shefir, President Zelenskyy’s aide from Kvartal 95 Studio, the production company he set up in 2003 with some of his school friends.
But this is far from a complete list of the London properties belonging to well-known Ukrainians, especially since some new addresses have been added to the list just recently. More details in this video.
Written and presented by: Mykhailo Tkach
Directed by: Andrii Ihnatenko
Director of photography: Yaroslav Bondarenko
Sound engineer: Dmytro Kozyrenko
Editor-analyst: Kateryna Kapliuk
Subtitle translation: Myroslava Zavadska, Yelyzaveta Khodatska
Subtitle editing: Teresa Pearce