Despite multiple declarations from the Irpin city authorities about openness and transparency, the official website of the Irpin City Council has never published a list of the mayor’s advisors. Currently, 20 people serve as advisors to the Mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushyn, including 2 staff members of the executive committee and 18 non-staff advisors. This information was obtained from the response of Irpin City Council executive manager Tetiana Yaroshenko to a request made by city council deputy Dmytro Chava.
According to the staff schedule of the Irpin City Council executive committee, two councilors of the mayor are paid from the city budget. These are:
- Valeriy Vasyliovych Stepanyuk (Irpin City Council deputy, who received a salary of UAH 50,336 in August), and
- Hennadiy Leonidovych Yavorskyi (in June, he was paid UAH 66,250; previously, while working in the Kyiv City State Administration, activists accused him of trying to shut down Kyiv’s “X-Park”).
Serhiy Valeriyovych Rosstalnyi is still listed as a councilor of the mayor. According to media reports, Rosstalnyi, the owner of several construction companies that received over UAH 700 million for the post-war reconstruction of damaged Irpin, permanently moved to the USA in the summer of 2024. Companies linked to Rosstalnyi—such as Big Bud Invest LLC, Radogost Plus LLC, SmartHouse Construction LLC, and City Construction LLC—have for years been awarded the largest municipal contracts by the Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn, who is reportedly a close associate of Rosstalnyi. Markushyn personally submitted multiple applications to permit Rosstalnyi’s travel abroad and also traveled with him several times as volunteers through the “Shlyakh” system.
Among the non-staff councilors of the Mayor of Irpin are:
- Ihor Dmytrovych Kutsenko and Ruslan Hryhorovych Shevchuk (members of the Irpin City Council executive committee),
- Oleksii Anatoliiovych Surovtsev (animal rights activist),
- Olena Valeriivna Pavlova (Captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Irpin City Council deputy),
- Oksana Vasylivna Nakonechna (Head of the Labor and Social Protection Department of the Irpin City Council executive committee),
- Olena Volodymyrivna Yampolska (Head of the International Department of the Irpin City Council executive committee),
- Oksana Romanivna Nechytailo (Irpin City Council deputy),
- Borys Vyacheslavovych Balmasov (Head of the Labor Department at the Irpin City Council’s Labor and Social Protection Department),
- Olha Romanivna Oliinych (Head of the Municipal Management Department),
- Valentyna Rezikoyevna Kravchenko (employee of “Irpinvodokanal”),
- Marian Yuriiovych Dashynych (Mayor Markushyn’s personal videographer).
Iryna Vasylivna Yarmolenko is also listed as one of the mayor’s advisors. However, she recently announced her Iryna Vasylivna Yarmolenko is also listed as one of the mayor’s councilors. However, she recently announced her resignation, citing salary manipulations by Oleksandr Markushyn and a lack of transparency in the formation of the community development strategy.
Additionally, some of Markushyn’s councilors are unknown to either the executive committee or the public. These include:
- Ivan Ivanovych Rusalovskyi (previously employed by the state enterprise “Ukrspyrt”),
- Vladyslav Vasyliovych Malashevskyi,
- Serhii Ernestovych Ostrovych (Judge from 2001–2010, First Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv Appellate Commercial Court; 2007–2008 – First Deputy Head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine; 2010–2017 – Judge of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine), and
- Oleksii Andriiovych Yurenko (Head of the “Mykhailivskyi” housing cooperative in Bilohorodka, founder of 7-Group LLC and the “Europa” housing cooperative).
Notably, Sofiia Martyniuk (Sofiia Dziubliuk), who had previously referred to herself as the mayor’s advisor on cultural issues, is absent from the current list of advisors.