03 May 2026
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The Economic Court of Odesa Oblast has denied the application of Melnychenko Limited Liability Company for non-compliance with a court order to remove obstacles to the use of state land and dismantle structures in the lower Dniester.
This was reported by the press service of the national park.
In 2024, the court upheld the claim of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office in the interests of the state regarding:
The case concerns the territories near Hlyboky Turunchuk, a part of Lower Transnistria where floodplain forests, fish spawning grounds, and nesting places for many bird species have been preserved.
The court confirmed that decisions that have entered into force are binding, natural areas must be restored to their previous state, and arguments about the impossibility of execution do not cancel the essence of the decision.
In June 2025, the former head of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council of Odesa Oblast, Hryhorii Melnychenko, said he had gone to court to cancel the order of the special administration of the Lower Dniester National Nature Park, which had imposed a temporary restriction on people's stay on the banks of the Hlybokyi Turunchuk River on June 15.
On June 15, the special administration of the Lower Dniester National Nature Park introduced a temporary restriction on the presence of people on the banks of the Deep Turunchuk River in Odesa Oblast.
The Turunchuk or New Dniester is a river in Moldova (Transnistria) and Ukraine, a branch of the Dniester. It is 30 meters wide with a normal depth of up to 6 meters, and up to 9 meters in depressions. Below the village of Mayaki, the Dniester is separated from the river by the 6-kilometer-long arm of the Deep Turunchuk, an artificial channel about 100 meters wide and 9-10 meters deep. Thus, the Dniester River flows into the Dniester Estuary in two branches: the Dniester itself and the Hlybokyi Turunchuk.
The fact is that according to the YouControl service, the owner of Melnychenko LLC is Viktor Melnychenko, a relative of Hryhorii Melnychenko, and until June 2025, the owners included Olena Melnychenko, the wife of the former head of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council and a share of the former head of the Odesa Regional Administration and former MP Serhii Hrynevetskyi. Hryhoriy Melnychenko himself is a director of the LLC.
In December 2023, Skhemy published information that Hryhorii Melnychenko, accused of misappropriation of state property, while still the head of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District Council in Odesa region, acquired two land plots worth almost a million hryvnias during the full-scale invasion of Russia in 2022.
Кирило Бойко