One of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers has purchased the confiscated Kyiv apartment of Russian propagandist and designer Artemy Lebedev, announcing plans to transform it into a space dedicated to contemporary Ukrainian culture.According to General Chereshnya and Ukraine’s State Property Fund, the company acquired the apartment during an online auction held on Tuesday.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“General Chereshnya will turn it into a space for a new Ukrainian culture,” the company said, adding that further details will be announced later.The 138.5-square-meter (1,490-square-foot) duplex apartment is located in Kyiv’s historic center near the Golden Gate. The State Property Fund said two bidders competed for the apartment before it was sold for Hr.13,500,001 (approximately $325,000), nearly Hr.3 million ($67,000) above the starting price.The auction was won by Center for Unmanned Systems Research LLC – the company behind the General Chereshnya drone brand.Funds raised from the sale will be transferred to Ukraine’s Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression, which finances recovery and reconstruction projects.Confiscated propertyLebedev is a Russian designer and pro-Kremlin propagandist who has repeatedly supported Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.In 2022, he traveled to occupied Enerhodar in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region and filmed himself on top of one of the reactor buildings at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.