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Prosecutors secured the return to the state of almost 1,8 thousand hectares of water fund land in Cherkasy, Bukovyna, and Mykolaiv regions
In Cherkasy region, court decisions were enforced to return to the state two plots totaling almost 1,4 thousand hectares valued at 30 million UAH. They are located on the territory of the Sahunivka and Leskivka communities of Cherkasy district and are part of the Kremenchuk Reservoir. State hydraulic structures that are not subject to privatization are located on these lands.
At the prosecutors’ suits, the court terminated the communal ownership rights of the village councils to these plots. State ownership rights were registered to the Cherkasy Regional State Administration.
In Bukovyna, prosecutors of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office secured the return to the state of almost 97 hectares of water fund land valued at over 2,7 million UAH. The Sovytsia River — a water body of national significance that belongs to the Prut river system — flows through the plot. State hydraulic structures are also located here.
In 2022 the Stavchany Village Council registered communal ownership rights to these lands. Prosecutors challenged this in court. In March 2026 the Commercial Court of Chernivtsi region satisfied the claim, and in 14 September the appellate court left the decision unchanged. Communal ownership rights were annulled and the plot was returned to the state.
In Mykolaiv region, at the suit of the Voznesensk district prosecutor’s office, the Shcherbany Reservoir was returned to the state along with water fund land plots totaling over 300 hectares.
The Commercial Court of Mykolaiv region declared invalid the contract for providing services to optimize the hydrological and hydrochemical condition of the reservoir and obliged the entrepreneur to return it to the state along with the land plots.
The prosecutor proved in court that the contract was sham: in fact it provided for transfer of the reservoir to the entrepreneur for fish breeding, which he had carried out for ten years.
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