Councillor Panchenko submitted his declaration: it transpired that he had worked for a year in the defence and mobilisation department of Mykolaiv City Council

Fedir Panchenko, a councillor for the ‘Propozytsia’ party. Photo: NikVesti

Fedir Panchenko, a member of the Mykolaiv City Council, has submitted his income declaration for 2025. In addition to his role as assistant to the mayor, it transpires that he worked as chief specialist in the city council’s department for the organisation of defence and mobilisation work and cooperation with law enforcement agencies.

This is evidenced by the data in the declaration.

Since 2013, Fedir Panchenko has owned a 67.7-square-metre flat, as well as two cars: a 1996 Daewoo Nexia and a 2021 Hyundai Tucson. According to the latest valuation, the second car is worth 1,260,300 hryvnias.

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The councillors wife, Tetiana, owns a 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, valued at 235,000 hryvnias.

Over the past year, Fedir Panchenko received 294,965 hryvnias in salary from the executive committee of the Mykolaiv City Council, 103,342 hryvnias in insurance payments and 25,536 hryvnias in compensation for damages following a court ruling.

The councillor's wife received 291,064 hryvnias in salary and 14,497 hryvnias in trade union payments at the Mykolaiv Commercial Port, 5,160 hryvnias in childbirth allowance, and a further 24,500 hryvnias as a business owner.

The MP and his wife hold 100,000 hryvnias in cash. In addition, Fedir Panchenko declared 14,665 hryvnias in a bank account.

The MP also has a loan dating from 2021, on which 329,405 hryvnias remain to be paid.

According to his declaration, Fedir Panchenko is a member of the «Protection and Order» public order group in Mykolaiv, as well as one of the owners of the European Centre for Legal Protection Ed Leghem.

It should be noted that, according to a source at the city council cited by NikVesti, in March 2026 Fedir Panchenko submitted a resignation letter from the department for the organisation of defence and mobilisation work.

It should be recalled that in February 2026, Fedir Panchenko, chair of the parliamentary budget committee, criticised the work of the finance department and its head, Vira Sviatelyk, over the situation regarding monthly spending limits for the culture department. It emerged that the city’s culture department was short of over 5 million hryvnias to pay salaries.