In August 2024, eKS producer Vinnika Alexander Gorbenko admitted that Vinnik allegedly left Ukraine on February 27, 2022, hiding under a plaid in a car of his wife Nina Gorbenko. The producer specified that the car was the wife of Vinnik, singer Taisiya Svatko. Vinnik did not comment on this during the year, but now he decided to explain how, according to him, everything was actually.
The singer called the words of the former producer a myth.
“Myth-he traveled from Ukraine under a blanket, or, as someone writes, under a plane. Well, here you are offending not only me, but also Ukraine. If you believe that you can escape from Ukraine under the blanket, this is not about me. And, most likely, this is your idea of the security of the state Ukraine. We are talking about the state of Ukraine, and not about the country of a third of the world. There are existing laws, there are border public services, there are documents, there are documents, there are documents, there are documents There are checks, ”said the artist.
He emphasized that he had traveled to Germany to his permanent place of residence.
“If I could enter, leave, generally cross the border of Ukraine, then for this I had official documents that confirmed my permanent place of residence in Germany. So I didn’t run away, I went to my son in Germany, home. Therefore, they released me,” the performer of the songs assured.
Vinnik urged not to believe in “thoughtless gossip”, but “simply interested in the laws of Ukraine.”
Context
After a full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, Vinnik stopped appearing in public and leading social networks. In the summer of 2023, in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Victoria Kurochka, the singer said that he left Ukraine on February 26, 2022 and lives in Berlin (Germany). “I left the 26th day. And I took out a lot of people,” he answered shortly. The singer noted that he is a citizen of Ukraine, but has the status of a resident of Germany and has been living abroad since 2000.
On July 17, 2025, Vinnik said that he came to Ukraine only to earn money, and his son was born in Germany. According to the artist, he has no Ukrainian passport since 2000.
