Housing for military personnel and city residents: a female deputy from Korabelnyi was quietly removed from the commission

She found out about it after being removed from WhatsApp

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25 Sep 2026

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Council member Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych was removed without warning from the public commission that oversees the allocation of housing to military personnel and Mykolaiv residents who need improved housing conditions. She considers this an open show of disrespect, a violation of her rights as a council member, and an artificial obstruction of her work.

The situation was discussed on September 23 at a meeting of the committee on human rights, children, family, legality, transparency, anti-corruption policy, local self-government, deputy activity and ethics. Trishchanovych, who is part of the deputy group “Women for Peace”, asked colleagues to respond to the change in the composition of the public housing commission.

The council member said she had served on this body since 2021 and attended meetings whenever possible. According to her, the draft change to the membership was prepared by the Department of Urban Management, but the issue was not previously considered by the public commission itself.

“I have served on this commission since 2021, I spent time and was present as much as possible in our times. The Housing Department drafts a decision regarding the change of composition without previously considering this issue at the commission itself. It was published on September 7, adopted on September 9. A letter to the council secretary requesting proposals for deputy candidates arrived only after the decision was adopted,” — said Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych.

The executive committee approved the updated membership of the public housing commission. At the same time, as the council member noted, it was unclear how independent representatives were supposed to submit their candidacies in just one day. In her view, such a procedure contradicts the purpose of a commission created for public oversight and transparent allocation of housing.

Trishchanovych was not informed of her removal either orally or by email. She noticed the change in her status only after being removed from the WhatsApp group.

“I learned that I am no longer on the commission after being removed from the WhatsApp group. I consider this a gross violation. I interpret these actions as concealment of information, which prevented me from understanding on what basis the commission’s composition was changed and from submitting proposals. I view these actions as artificial obstruction of my work,” — said Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych.

The head of the council committee on legality, Olena Kiselova, from the “European Solidarity” faction called such a replacement of the council member inappropriate. The committee decided to appeal to the initiator of the executive committee’s draft decision so that similar cases do not happen again.

“If deputies are members of any commissions, supervisory boards, or groups, then inclusion and exclusion should be carried out at least with their prior familiarization and by obtaining feedback both from the deputies themselves and from faction leaders or through the work of standing committees,” — said Olena Kiselova.

According to Kiselova, the composition of the public commission should be additionally reviewed and people who do not want to work should be excluded. She also emphasized that the law does not allow one person to simultaneously be a member of a supervisory board and the public housing commission, yet such cases currently exist.

Another proposal concerned mandatory holding of public commission meetings via Zoom. Currently, the format of their work, according to the head of the council committee, is determined arbitrarily.

“If a session is held in Zoom mode, then other meetings can also be held accordingly, so that we have some principle of balance. Otherwise it feels like, let’s say, manual control and it is impossible to adapt to it. Even if a person wants to exercise certain powers, often either lack of time or inability to track these changes deprives them of that opportunity,” — added Olena Kiselova.

Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych gave an example of how the housing commission’s work is organized: participants are notified of the agenda at 12:00, and an hour later a vote is held. It is impossible to join such meetings via Zoom.

Following the discussion, the council committee recommended reinstating Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych to the public housing allocation commission, reviewing its personal composition, and providing protection for deputies against groundless removal from working bodies of power. It was separately proposed to eliminate overlap between the membership of supervisory boards and the public commission, and to move meetings to an online format.

For residents of the Korabelnyi district, Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych is well known: she herself lives in the district, although she was elected to the Mykolaiv City Council from “OPZZh” and represents residents of the Inhulskyi district there, since she ran at the place of her work in a pharmacy.

In March 2024 Korabelov.info also wrote about the council member’s volunteer activities. Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych represented Mykolaiv at the charity contest “Charity Queen of Ukraine”, where voting was effectively a donation for the needs of the military. As a result of the fundraiser, 18,340 hryvnias were raised in support of the Armed Forces. Trishchanovych finished in the top five of the contest participants and received the ambassador distinction of the “Association of Queens of Ukraine”.

Korabelov.info also wrote about the council member in connection with an administrative case. On November 27, 2024 the Korabelnyi District Court found Yelyzaveta Trishchanovych guilty under part 1 of Article 130 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (КУпАП), imposed a fine of 17,000 hryvnias and deprived her of the right to drive vehicles for 1 year. The council member appealed the ruling, but in March 2025 the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal left the decision unchanged.

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