At the state-owned PrivatBank, a board member’s salary exceeded $60,000
This is stated in a report based on the 2025 declaration of Inna Razumna, the wife of a PrivatBank board member.
The report notes that top managers of five state-owned banks do not usually disclose their salaries, and the law, unlike for employees of the National Bank of Ukraine, does not require them to submit annual declarations.
This is precisely why the actual income of one of the board members of a state-owned bank became known not directly, but through his wife’s annual declaration. We are referring to Anton Razumny, a member of PrivatBank’s board. Details of his salary are included in the 2025 declaration of his wife, Inna Razumna, who works as a middle manager in the National Bank’s corporate pension fund management department.
The text specifically explains that Anton Razumny is responsible for compliance at PrivatBank, i.e. ensuring the bank adheres to industry and ethical standards, as well as for primary financial monitoring. It is this department, as noted in the publication, that is responsible, in particular, for freezing customer accounts in cases of suspected abuse or unusual transactions. He reports directly to the chairman of the board.
In 2025, Anton Razumny’s salary alone, according to the data provided, amounted to 30.5 million UAH. On average, this is 2.54 million UAH per month, or around 62,000 dollars at the 2025 exchange rate.
In addition to his basic salary, the board member of the state-owned PrivatBank received a further 3.8 million UAH in the form of ‘corporate insurance’. The declaration also lists small sums in the form of interest, medical insurance and a gift worth 1,700 UAH.
How salaries have changed during the war
The article includes a separate comparison with 2022, when Russia’s full-scale invasion had already taken place. At that time, Anton Razumny’s salary at the same bank and in the same position was 5.3 million UAH per year. On average, this amounted to 442,000 UAH or 12,300 dollars per month at the 2022 exchange rate.
At the same time, in 2022, no additional payments in the form of ‘corporate insurance’, as noted, were declared.
Thus, during the full-scale war, the salary of a member of the board of the state-owned bank, according to the calculations cited in the publication, increased sixfold.
In 2023, Anton Razumny’s salary rose to 8.6 million UAH, and in 2024 – to 9.9 million UAH.
The text also mentions that previously, the most talked-about salary in the public sector was that of the CEO of “Ukrposhta”, Ihor Smilianskyi, who declared a salary of 11.7 million UAH in 2025.
What is known about bank profits
The article also provides a broader financial context. It notes that in January–February 2026, Ukrainian banks made a profit of 17.8 billion UAH, whilst in 2025 they recorded a 22% increase in profits, reaching a record 126.8 billion UAH on an annual basis.
According to media reports, in 2025 state-owned banks remained the mainstay of the banking system’s profitability, accounting for 63% of net profit. It
is also noted that PrivatBank alone accounted for 22.9% of the entire banking system’s profit, or 29.1 billion UAH.
As reported by ThePublic, MP and leader of “European Solidarity” Petro Poroshenko declared approximately 1.9 billion UAH in income in his 2025 declaration. Separately, he declared a non-monetary gift to his wife, Maryna Poroshenko, worth 989 million UAH.
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