On the 30th, Russia will auction the apartment owned by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his wife, Olena Zelenska, in Yalta, on the annexed Crimea peninsula, with a starting price of more than 200,000 euros.
According to the official TASS agency, the apartment, which was confiscated last May by the parliament imposed by Russia in Crimea, annexed by the Kremlin in 2014, will be auctioned in a prefinished state, since the presidential couple never lived in this property. and only the walls were whitewashed.
The Zelensky family’s apartment has an area of 119.5 square meters and is located in the Imperator residential area in the town of Livadia, located on the outskirts of the popular seaside resort of Yalta, one of the main tourist destinations on the peninsula.
The property, which was registered in the name of Olena Zelenska, has been put up for auction with a starting price of 24.6 million rubles (242,875 euros or $257,562 at the current exchange rate), according to TASS.
Zelensky’s apartment has several rooms: a living room with a panoramic window to the balcony, a bedroom with a bathroom and a kitchen combined with a dining room. There is no furniture or plugs yet, according to the same source.
The apartment is located on the fifth floor and from its balcony there are views of the Black Sea and the Livadia Palace with the adjacent garden. The palace was the resting home of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
This imperial palace hosted the Yalta Conference in February 1945 that brought together the Soviet leaders, Joseph Stalin; British, Winston Churchill, and American, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
According to TASS, purchase applications will be accepted until October 26 and auction participants will be required to make a deposit of 50% of the initial price.