Snopes: The facts behind resurfaced claim that Zelenskyy has multiple homes, planes, offshore accounts

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Source: Snopes

The facts behind resurfaced claim that Zelenskyy has multiple homes, planes, offshore accounts

Rumors that Zelenskyy owned a Florida mansion and had $1.2 billion in offshore accounts circulated prior to the Ukraine war.

Laerke Christensen
Published March 5, 2025

Claim:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy owns 15 homes including a $35 million home in Florida, has $1.2 billion in an overseas bank account, owns 15 homes, three private planes and has a monthly income of $11 million.

Rating:

False

In March 2025, following a contentious meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump and the resulting pause in U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a years-old claim (archived) about Zelenskyy's alleged wealth began to recirculate.

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The claim, shared across Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived) and X (archived) in the form of an image, read:

The President of Ukraine owns a 35 million dollar home in Florida and has $1.2 billion in a overseas bank account. Zelensky owns 15 homes, 3 private planes, and has a monthly income of 11 million dollars. Why is no one questioning where our AID is going?

However, there was no proof of any of the claims shared within the image.

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Read more: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-houses-planes-offshores-accounts/

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1. All of the evil people are poking their heads out of the steaming shit pile

named Trump.

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2. Is that the story

that comes from DC Weekly, which is located in Russia?

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3. Snopes attributes the story to the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda (kp.ru).

kp.ru got it from a deposed pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch.

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4. 'Komsomol' was the Communist Youth League of the USSR -- strangely, they're still around in some sense.

'Pravda' means 'Truth' (Oh, irony!) and was the name of the national newspaper of the CPSU. So Komsomolskaya Pravda is the house organ of the (formerly Soviet, now Russian) Communist Youth League. Take this "news" report with a grain of salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Komsomol

https://komsomolrf.ru/ (WARNING: Russian site!)