The prosecutor’s office was unable to seize land from a former council member in the “Bugo-Desnyansky” Nature Reserve
5 April 13:07
The Kyiv Commercial Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor’s office, which had sought to seize a plot of land in the “Bugo-Desnyansky” Nature Reserve in Vinnytsia Oblast from the private enterprise “Vinnytske Tourist, Hunting, and Fishing Enterprise.”
This is evidenced by the court’s decision dated March 3, 2026, reports "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to EP.
The prosecutor’s office believes that the decision by the Vinnytsia Regional Council to redistribute hunting grounds—specifically, to grant the enterprise the use of 1,073 hectares of land within the nature reserve fund of the “Bugo-Desnyansky” General Zoological Reserve of national significance—was unlawful.
Therefore, it demanded that the agreement on the terms of hunting management, concluded on January 21, 2011, between the Vinnytsia Regional Forestry and Hunting Administration (the legal successor of which is the Central-Western Interregional Forestry and Hunting Administration) and a private enterprise regarding hunting grounds covering an area of 1,073 hectares, located in quarters 15–34 of the Mykhailivka Forest District of the Vinnytsia Forest District, a branch of the “Central Forest Office” of the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine.”
As well as a similar agreement dated January 1, 2015 (concluded by the private enterprise with the state enterprise “Vinnytsia Forestry”), and to order the “Vinnytsia Tourist Hunting and Fishing Enterprise” to vacate the hunting grounds.
The claims are based on the fact that these hunting grounds, transferred for use to the private enterprise, include territory that is part of Ukraine’s nature reserve fund and ecological network—the “Bugo-Desnyansky” General Zoological Reserve of national significance.
At the same time, Judge Serhiy Mudry concluded that since the agreement on the use of forest fund plots for hunting management No. 2 dated January 1, 2015 “would have been concluded even without the inclusion of invalid provisions, specifically: regarding the user’s right to dispose of game animals obtained or acquired in another lawful manner, and the proceeds from their sale; to organize hunting for hunters, and these parts are not essential terms for this type of agreement, and therefore the invalidity of the aforementioned parts of the transaction does not result in the invalidity of the transaction as a whole.”
As a result, the court concluded that the claim filed by the prosecutor’s office, represented by Olena Bykhovtsova, seeking to invalidate the entire agreement on the use of forest fund plots for hunting operations was unfounded.
According to YouControl data, the founders of the private enterprise “Vinnytske Tourist Hunting and Fishing Enterprise” are Oleksandr Taran, Valentyna Nahirnyak, and Ivan Ivatsko (the director, who previously headed the state-owned enterprise “Vinnytske Forestry and Hunting Enterprise”).
