On June 27, a Russian-speaking Facebook user, who has previously spread false information, published a post claiming that a Ukrainian MP from the party Kind People, Lyudmila Shur, introduced a legislative initiative in the Rada (Ukraine’s parliament). The claim is spread in the form of a video, which includes a photo of the alleged MP and the content of the legislative initiative. According to the accompanying text, the bill proposes that all empty apartments whose owners left the country during difficult times be handed over to Jewish refugees. It also allegedly includes provisions for stripping pensions from those owners, banning them from obtaining foreign citizenship, and deciding their fate upon return.
The claim that such a draft law has been registered in the Rada, proposing the transfer of empty apartments in Ukraine to Jewish refugees, is false. No such initiative can be found on the official website of the Rada. Furthermore, there is no party in the Rada called Kind People, nor is there any MP named Lyudmila Shur. The person shown in the video is actually a former Rada MP, Iryna Kormyshkina.
As of July 24, no draft law of this nature is listed in the Ukrainian Rada’s online legislative archive. Additionally, there is no political party named “Kind People” in the Rada, and such a party does not exist according to open sources. The name of the MP, Lyudmila Shur, is also fabricated; no such individual is a member of the Rada.
The woman shown in the photo is former Rada MP Iryna Kormyshkina from the Servant of the People party. Her mandate was suspended on February 25, 2025. Kormyshkina lost her mandate due to suspicion of illegal enrichment, involvement in criminal proceedings, and submission of false data in electronic declarations. There is also no record on the Rada website of her having registered any draft law regarding the allocation of housing to Jewish refugees.
According to the investigation, in 2021–2022, she acquired assets worth more than 20 million hryvnias, while her official income and savings during that period did not exceed 2.7 million hryvnias. She bought a house in Odesa that was not declared in her financial disclosure. She also failed to declare two land plots that were in her use.
As a preventive measure, Kormyshkina was ordered to pay bail. The court appointed as her guarantors David Arakhamia, head of the parliamentary faction Servant of the People, and Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration. Kormyshkina’s husband was also charged in the illegal enrichment case, as law enforcement authorities claim he was involved in laundering his wife’s property. He was also required to post bail and pay 15 million hryvnias.
Iryna Alakhverdiyeva (currently Kormyshkina) was elected as a people’s deputy in 2019 from the Servant of the People party list as an independent. Her mandate was suspended on February 25, 2025, following a corruption scandal.
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