Somehow it was hard to believe when Igor Taran, having familiarized himself with the documents prepared for him by lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko , stated that the agent of ” Pukhlyn ” is not currently a lawyer and it is quite possible that he is a fraudster. Because the documents said: “Lawyer Bereschenko …”. As proof of what he said, Igor Taran sent an extract from the Unified Register of Lawyers of Ukraine.
This evidence, presented to the senior soldier Bereschenko , greatly outraged and upset him to such a state that he began to threaten Igor Taran, who had exposed him, with criminal prosecution. “Yes,” said the agent ” Pukhlyn ,” “I sometimes suspend the right to practice law, and then just as easily renew it.”
This time, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko suspended (exactly like that: “stopped”!) his right to practice law on October 11, 2024. This suspension was caused by an appeal hearing regarding the debtor and now senior soldier-cartographer, which took place on December 6, 2024.
On this day, the Kherson Court of Appeal, as part of a panel of judges of the judicial chamber for consideration of civil cases, considered the complaint of Andriy Nikolaevich Kulinichenko against the ruling of the Kherson City Court of the Kherson Region dated October 15, 2024 in the case on the claim of Kulinichenko against Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko on the collection of a debt under a loan agreement.
Let me remind you that the agent ” Pukhlyn ” owes Andrei Nikolaevich $42,000 (forty-two thousand US dollars).
Based on this receipt and the loan agreement, in September 2023, Andriy Nikolaevich Kulinichenko filed a claim to recover the debt in the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky District Court of the Kiev Region. He filed a claim to recover the debt because he knew that in this area, in Sofiivska Borshahivka , Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko had a mortgaged apartment. And this was confirmed in 2025 by the senior soldier-cartographer himself in his declaration for 2024, and he also proved that during the war he had paid off the mortgage in full and became the owner of the residential square meters.
sends this claim of Andrey Nikolaevich Kulinichenko for consideration by the Kherson City Court of the Kherson Region. That is, at the place of registration of Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko .
Probably because in 2023, lawyer Bereschenko had not yet fully paid off the mortgage and did not indicate his apartment in the declaration. Although, as Ruslan Aleksandrovich said in 2020, he wrote the receipt precisely on the territory of the Kyivo-Svyatoshinsky district.
Bereschenko’s lawyer, who was not yet suspended but was still active, filed a motion with the court to suspend proceedings in his case for the period of his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and until the end of martial law and his dismissal from the ranks of the country’s defenders.
The representative of Andrey Nikolaevich Kulinichenko , lawyer Igor Nikolaevich Uninets , objected to satisfying this petition. And this despite the fact that Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko confirmed his participation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine with certificate No. 2819 dated August 23, 2024 by the unit commander Aleksandr Vasilyevich.
At that time, lawyer Uninets I.N. could not yet know that the second original of this original certificate under the same number and from the same date, signed by the same unit commander, would be presented on March 10, 2025, to the same Kherson Court of Appeal by the sorcerer Bereschenko in order to suspend another appeal. This time – on the claim of Zozulya Sergey Aleksandrovich and on the debt of $ 6,000.
At the same time, lawyer Igor Nikolaevich Uninets determined that, based on the indicators of the registers of the Judicial Authority of Ukraine, serviceman R.A. Bereschenko has been actively engaged in advocacy since July 12, 2022, that is, since the beginning of his service. Probably, during the war he has time free from difficult military service, the existence of which his unit commander does not even suspect.
The hereditary sorcerer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich immediately wrote a response to the appeal. Using his procedural right, he attached to the response another original of another certificate No. 3674 dated November 1, 2024, signed by the same unit commander Aleksandr Vasilyevich, the second original of which he also uses on March 10, 2025 .
The principles of office work state that one certificate can be provided to four addressees at the same time without specifying copies. That is, the unit commander Alexander Vasilyevich first issued certificate No. 2819 dated 08/23/2024 for two addressees? Then certificate No. 3674 dated 11/01/2024 also for two addressees?
But if each of these two certificates as an original is attached to the claim in the appellate proceedings of Andrey Nikolaevich Kulinichenko , where did the originals of the two certificates in the claim and appellate proceedings of Zozulya Sergey Aleksandrovich come from? Who and how reproduces these originals from the originals? Could it be personally Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko with the original signatory, the unit commander Aleksandr Vasilyevich?
Having attached these originals, having read that the lawyer Uninets I.N. makes claims against him that, being a serviceman, he is actively engaged in advocacy, senior soldier-cartographer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich on October 11, 2024 wrote a statement about stopping his right to engage in advocacy from October 11, 2024. And the appellate court of the Kherson region took into account this serious circumstance.
But then a legitimate question arises. If senior soldier-cartographer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich suspended his right to practice law on October 11, 2024, then on what basis did this suspended lawyer defend the accused Bychkov Ruslan Nikolaevich on November 6, 2024, when the Mogilev-Podolsky City and District Court of Vinnytsia Oblast passed a sentence on him? Did he lie to the court once again?
And in what capacity will he represent R.N. Bychkov in the Vinnytsia Court of Appeal on May 19, 2025?
The response was received from the Unified Register of Advocates of Ukraine. On November 6, 2024, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereshchenko did not have the right to practice law . This right was restored on January 28, 2025, based on the application of January 27, 2025.
And on May 19, 2025, he is ready as a lawyer. And he will defend Bychkov R.N. during a break in military service with the obligatory permission of the unit commander Alexander Vasilyevich.
But when Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko sent his lawyer’s certificate to the Obukhov District Court in the Kiev Region on December 5, 2024 , he once again slipped the court a fake. But more on that in the next article. In the meantime, let’s look at the activities of the lawyer and soldier Bereschenko in the Odessa court.
Oh, Odessa!
On August 26, 2021, lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereshchenko filed a claim with the Kiev District Court of Odessa.
On behalf of Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel .
According to the lawyer, Natalya Anatolyevna lived in the USA and fought with her relatives over the will.
In this lawsuit, the lawyer acting in the interests of Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel asked. He asked the court for a lot. But we are interested in one of his urgent requests.
Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko asked to recognize the will of Natalya Anatolyevna’s relative, who died in the hospital, as valid.
The relative died in the City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital of the Odessa City Council. But, according to the assurances of the lawyer Bereschenko , on February 2, 2021, shortly before his death, the future deceased made a will right in the infectious diseases hospital. Moreover, in the presence of two witnesses.
And, naturally, based on the testimony of these witnesses, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko asked the court to recognize Natalya Anatolyevna Korovel ‘s right of ownership to the property indicated by the future deceased in the will dated February 2, 2021. I repeat, in the presence of two witnesses.
Lawyer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich asked the court to oblige the Odessa State Notary Archive to perform the necessary registration actions in the inheritance register. That is, to register the will of the future deceased, drawn up by him on February 2, 2021, in the presence, again, of two witnesses.
Two witnesses, who somehow ended up in the Odessa infectious diseases hospital , had never actually been there. They lived in the Kiev suburb of Gostomel. Their names were Popovichuk Oleg Nikolaevich and Tarakhkalo Vasily Nikolaevich.
Both are long-time accomplices of Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko and Andrei Nikolaevich Kulinichenko .
Vasily Tarakhkalo worked in the archive, where he and Andrey Kulinichenko , according to Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko , were listed as “black registrars.”
Agent ” Pukhlyna ” noted that criminal proceedings had been opened against Kulinichenko and Tarakhkalo for fraud with non-residential premises in Obolon.
Thus, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko knew whom to take as false witnesses to the Odessa infectious diseases hospital.
The trial dragged on. The war began.
On September 28, 2022, the soldier Bereschenko , as a lawyer, asks the judge of the Kyiv District Court of Odessa, Elena Vasilievna Vasilkiv , and even, as the judge writes in the ruling, “insisted on questioning witnesses after the end of martial law, and also reported that at this time he is in the ranks of the defenders of the state.”
Both witnesses were actually fighting at that time: Vasya Tarakhkalo – in the Troitsky Regional Military Enlistment Office, Oleg Popovichuk – between the Borodyansky Military Enlistment Office and the 95th Brigade.
The judge agreed with the request of Bereschenko’s lawyer and requested the relevant information from the competent authorities.
And here the lawyer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich made a mistake not only with the false witnesses.
The person who died in the infectious diseases hospital was the brother of Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel . He naturally did not write any will, especially not in the presence of witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo .
On August 4, 2021, the six-month period for entering into inheritance expired. And then a will surfaced, allegedly written by the deceased brother, but, in fact, forged by lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko . It was a fake original.
In accordance with the will, Natalia Anatolyevna’s brother, in the event of his death, bequeathed all his property to his sister, that is, to her, Korovel .
In accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated July 7, 2011 (No. 1810/5), the City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital of the Odessa City Council, where the will of Natalia Korovel’s brother was allegedly certified , was supposed to send a copy of the will along with the corresponding application to the State Notary Archive of the Odessa Region at a strictly defined time. The archive was supposed to register this will in the inheritance register.
infectious diseases hospital did not do all this . Because at that time there was no will of the deceased in the presence of witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo and, most importantly, there was no forgery lawyer in the Korovel inheritance case. Bereschenko .
Therefore, in the Odessa state archive, lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko was sent, to put it mildly, after the “Russian warship”, explaining to the lawyer that all deadlines had been missed and he needed to go to court. Then lawyer Bereschenko sent a copy of the will he had concocted to the Saratsk state notary office of the Odessa region, represented by state notary Kolesnik D.Yu.
According to the idea of the greatest lawyer of our time, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko , the state notary D.Yu. Kolesnik was supposed to unquestioningly accept the forgery he had drawn up and take into account the “left” will when dividing the inherited property of Natalia Korovel’s brother .
Notary Kolesnik D.Yu. also did not fall for the fake of lawyer Bereschenko and recommended that he go to court.
That is why lawyer Bereschenko Ruslan Aleksandrovich went to the Odessa court with his fake.
In court, Bereschenko stated that he believed that when signing the will, Natalia Korovel’s brother was fully aware of his actions, controlled them, and had a genuine desire to leave his property to his sister. Because at the time of signing the will, he had already been divorced from his ex-wife, who was now laying claim to his inheritance, for almost five years.
Lawyer Bereschenko knew from Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel that the deceased brother’s ex-wife received a significant amount of money during the divorce for her own maintenance and the maintenance of two adopted children. She, the ex-wife, gave Korovel’s brother a notarized statement that as the guardian of the children and the ex-wife, she renounces the property of her ex-husband in the future. Therefore, as lawyer Bereschenko wisely concluded , the desire of the dying brother to leave the property to his sister is quite logical and conscious.
Lawyer Ruslan Bereschenko emphasized in court that the will of Korovel’s brother dated February 2, 2021 was drawn up in the appropriate form and with the appropriate confirmation at the City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital of the Odessa City Council with the participation of two witnesses, so there are no grounds to recognize it as worthless or invalid.
But the next participant in the trial once again proved to both the court and Bereschenko’s lawyer that he is a dumb forger . Here is how he ineptly, for a fee from Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel , forged her brother’s will.
The head of the Odessa State Notary Archives stated that on August 10, 2021, a will was sent by mail to the organization she headed. The envelope indicated that the letter was sent from the Odessa infectious diseases hospital .
In the envelope, in addition to the will of Korovel’s brother , there was an application for state registration of wills and inheritance agreements, drawn up on behalf of Korovel’s deceased brother on February 2, 2021, signed by the head of the infectious diseases department (without indicating the name of the head) and director S. Ya. Lavryukova .
In violation of Article 40 of the Law of Ukraine “On Notaries”, the will on behalf of Korovel’s brother , allegedly written by him on February 2, 2021, in the presence of witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo , was delivered to the state archive on August 10, 2021.
While studying the fake will concocted by lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko , archival specialists found the following shortcomings.
– there was no information about the time of drawing up the will;
– the date, month, and year of birth of the false witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo are not indicated ;
– there is no complete information about the passports of these false witnesses, namely: by which agency and when the passports were issued;
– there is no information about the last name, first name and patronymic of the doctor (head of department);
– the copy of the will does not have any certification inscription attesting the will, which is the main and mandatory condition for wills and testaments equivalent to notarized wills.
Taking into account these violations missed by lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereshchenko when he drew up a false will on behalf of Natalia Korovel’s brother , the head of the state archive stated that it was not possible to enter this fundamental creation of the agent “ Pukhlyna ” through state registration in the Inheritance Register.
And then the lawyer Bereschenko was finished off by the representative of the legal heirs of the deceased brother Korovel . In addition to the fact that he stated that the will did not comply with the established form, he emphasized that the KNP “City Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital” of the Odessa City Council responded to his lawyer’s request as follows:
Korovel’s brother died in the hospital;
– witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo were not in the hospital;
– nothing is known about the will in the hospital.
The representative of the legal heirs also stated that he believes that the text of the will was not written in the hospital. And thus confirmed that the lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereshchenko made an unsuccessful attempt and committed an offense falling under Part 2 of Article 384 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Together with Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel, Ruslan Bereschenko fought for the deceased’s material assets written in the fake will:
– all his property, as well as the property of his deceased parents;
– all funds in his bank accounts;
– cash kept at his home in the amount of $100,000 (one hundred thousand US dollars), 5,000 (five thousand euros), all securities and shares.
Bereschenko’s fiasco
Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel’s brother died on February 5, 2021 at the age of 52.
On February 25, 2021, the deceased’s daughter and his son’s guardian applied to inherit after his death.
On June 15, 2021, lawyer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko filed a statement on behalf of Natalia Anatolyevna Korovel .
Despite the fact that the sister is a second-order heir by law, a written request was received from lawyer Ruslan Bereshchenko on August 12, 2021, to the Saratsky District State Notary Office of the Odessa Region , in which the agent ” Pukhlyna ” sent the original copy of Korovel’s brother’s will dated August 2, 2021. In the letter, lawyer Bereshchenko asked not to issue a certificate of inheritance to other heirs without taking into account the contents of the will, allegedly written by the deceased.
Forger Naturally, the notary office did not accommodate Bereschenko . And then, in court, the infectious diseases hospital provided a certificate, which, in particular, stated:
“Among the staff or patients who were in the intensive care unit next to Korovel , there were no people with the last names Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo .
The management of the KNP “MKIL” OMR knows nothing about the drawing up of a will by the patient Korovel . There are no records on this matter in the hospital.”
Lawyer Bereschenko continued to fight the Odessa court with desperate persistence. He petitioned to summon witnesses Popovichuk and Tarakhkalo to court .
The court hearing, at which lawyer Ruslan Bereschenko was effectively declared an incompetent fraudster, took place on May 25, 2023. The war was in full swing.
As the judge pointed out, “a long procedural period was spent on determining the location of the witnesses.” And, finally, Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko found them.
In a statement dated May 24, 2023, Bereschenko’s lawyer told the court that witness Oleg Nikolaevich Popovichuk died in a traffic accident while returning from Bakhmut to his military unit. At the same time, Ruslan Aleksandrovich noted that he was unable to establish contact with witness Vasily Tarakhkalo , who is in the combat zone.
Breshchenko noted that he could not establish the whereabouts of Vasily Tarakhkalo and his state of health, therefore the question of allowing witness Tarakhkalo to participate in the consideration of the case by lawyer Ruslan Bereschenko was not sent to the court. Well, he asked to remove from consideration the question of the participation of witness Popovichuk , who is also deceased.
Once, after the death of Oleg Popovichuk , to whom Ruslan Aleksandrovich Bereschenko owed $20,000, I asked about the fate of Vasya Tarakhkalo .
“Missing in action,” replied the agent ” Pukhlyn .”
But already at the beginning of 2025, the hereditary sorcerer Ruslan Bereschenko informed me that Vasily Tarakhkalo was alive and well.
It would be interesting to know whether Vasily, who is still alive, knows that he was present when Korovel wrote his will in the Odessa infectious diseases hospital ? And with what diagnosis were Vasily Tarakhkalo and Oleg Popovichuk brought from the Kiev region to this Odessa clinical hospital ?
Vasya, be careful! Read how and why Oleg died!
