Sept. 1, 2025, 7:36 p.m.
(PHOTO: State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southwest District)
Entrepreneurs have seized 4.3 hectares of land used by the Velykomykhailivske forestry of the Odesa forestry branch of the Southern Forest Office of the state enterprise Forests of Ukraine.
This was reported by the press service of the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Southwest Region.
The 4.3-hectare plot in Odesa region, intended for forestry, was used for growing crops. This, according to the inspectors, led to a violation of the designated purpose of the land.
The inspection calculated the damage in the amount of UAH 583.6 thousand. The materials were handed over to the police to be included in the criminal proceedings.
At the end of August, an entrepreneur from Podilskyi district of Odesa region was sentenced to one year in prison, which was immediately replaced by a probationary period of one year for unauthorized occupation of a land plot in a protected zone. Last fall, without permits, the man illegally plowed and sowed winter wheat on a land plot of about 11 hectares in the Savranska community, which is part of the coastal protection zone of the Southern Bug River. By his actions, the offender caused material damage to the community in the amount of over UAH 347 thousand. At the request of the police, the court seized the land with the crops.
In May, the Tarutino District Court of Odesa Oblast found a Sarata native guilty of illegal appropriation of the surface layer of water fund lands on a particularly large scale and fined him UAH 17,000. The man illegally dug a pond near the Chiligider River and filled it with its waters.
Earlier, a farmer from Izmail district in Odesa region was accused of unauthorized seizure of a land plot near Lake Katlabukh. The agronomist was interested in the land plot. He decided to cultivate and plant it without having any permits for the land.
Кирило Бойко