{"id":534778,"date":"2026-04-18T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534778"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:15:37","slug":"family-of-marharyta-liauchuk-denied-housing-loan-in-kyiv-due-to-her-belarusian-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/family-of-marharyta-liauchuk-denied-housing-loan-in-kyiv-due-to-her-belarusian-passport","title":{"rendered":"Family of Marharyta Liauchuk Denied Housing Loan in Kyiv Due to Her Belarusian Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian opera singer <strong><b>Marharyta Liauchuk<\/b><\/strong>, who lives in Ukraine, has spoken about being denied a mortgage loan in Kyiv. According to her, the reason was her Belarusian citizenship \u2014 despite the fact that her husband is a Ukrainian serviceman, a war veteran who has been fighting for five years and has suffered a serious injury.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We were not given a housing loan in Kyiv, even though my husband is a Ukrainian soldier, a war veteran who has been fighting for five years and was seriously wounded. And they refused because his wife, that is me, is a Belarusian with a Belarusian passport. And they don\u2019t give a damn what kind of Belarusian you are or what you have done for Ukraine and for Belarus to be free from the Lukashenka regime,&#8221;<\/em> the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@margarita.levchuk.official\/post\/DXRL_taDMlS\">wrote<\/a> on Threads.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s hurtful, to say the least. And most of all, it\u2019s hurtful for my husband, who is ready to give his life for his country and has already nearly done so many times, yet those who have never sat in the trenches deny him what his family needs most right now \u2014 a home of their own. Shame and disgrace. When will Ukrainians understand that Belarusians are not Lukashenka, especially those Belarusians who, like Ukrainians now, live in Ukraine during the war and fight on Ukraine\u2019s side?!&#8221;<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that since 2023 Levchuk has been living in Ukraine. In July 2024, Marharyta and Ukrainian serviceman <strong><b>Ruslan Korniyenko<\/b><\/strong> were <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/margarita-levchuk-vyshla-zamuzh-za-ukrainskogo-voennosluzhashhego\">married in Kharkiv<\/a>. At the beginning of this year, Levchuk obtained the right to permanent residence in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian opera singer Marharyta Liauchuk, who lives in Ukraine, has spoken about being denied a mortgage loan in Kyiv. According to her, the reason was her Belarusian citizenship \u2014 despite the fact that her husband is a Ukrainian serviceman, a war veteran who has been fighting for five years and has suffered a serious injury. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":534777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e3e66da0fdd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Family of Marharyta Liauchuk Denied Housing Loan in Kyiv Due to Her Belarusian Passport"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[143118,143123],"class_list":["post-534778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","tag-belarus","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}