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Frontline land grab: how the Dereka clan and local officials are taking land and the budget of Kharkiv region
While fierce battles for every meter of Ukrainian land are being fought at the front, a no less cynical front is unfolding in the frontline #Харківщина — a land racket. Local villagers have been caught in the jaws of lawlessness, as their own shares and fertile plots are handed over to a chosen agricultural dynasty through “handpicked” officials.
The key figure in this land expansion is #Дерека Hennadiy and his farming enterprise “SF #ДРУЖБА.” ❗ This farm has already obtained over 73,49 hectares of agricultural land in the Malynivka community. Rights to the plots were systematically and consistently registered during 2019–2025 years. This is not ordinary farming, but a deliberate accumulation of a land bank in a single set of hands.
The scheme is striking in its scale and longevity. Land is taken from villagers not for a couple of years, but literally for a quarter of a century. 🔻 For example, a plot of 5,1198 hectares was transferred to “DRUZHBA” for 25 years with automatic renewal (the lease right was registered on 30 September 2024). Hennadiy Chemshyt’s lands of 5,2263 hectares are leased until 10 May 2049. And Alla Rozanova’s plot (6,8027 hectares) ended up under the farm’s control at least until the end of 2027.
Such success has a very specific 🤷♂️ family foundation. Hennadiy Dereka is the brother of the headman of the Starohnylytskyi starostyn district, Valeriy Dereka, and Vitaliy Dereka is his nephew. A whole network of clone companies is tied to this family circle. Legally they are different entities, but in fact — a single monopolistic pillaging fist.
Flawless “green light” in the registers is provided by local authorities. The Malynivka settlement military administration is headed by #Семерянов, and the state registrar of the Malynivka settlement council is Olga #Кольцова. It was Koltsova who on 30 September 2024 personally carried out the registration of the lease right for 💰 5,1198 hectares and 5,2263 hectares for “DRUZHBA.” Someone else’s private property, with the wave of an official’s hand, ends up in the pocket of a single clan.
📌 Could such a large-scale scheme exist without the loyalty of regional leadership? Obviously not. Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh #Синєгубов and chair of the Kharkiv Regional Council Tetiana #Єгорова find themselves under serious question. When hundreds of hectares are systematically redistributed in a frontline region under their watch, a logical suspicion arises: might this be the result of tacit consent and “kickbacks” in higher offices?
The post on this topic gathered as many as 1,5 thousand likes, nearly 100 comments and 300 reposts.❗This situation provokes rightful outrage among citizens:
“Synehubov is an accidental person in power; he should be defending the homeland at the front, not stealing the land for which fighters are shedding blood.”
“Why is this situation in Kharkiv region — like this across the whole country 😂”
“Let the boomerang return to them!”
While villagers lose their lands and the local budget is shredded by baseless contracts, law enforcement agencies are obliged to immediately enter information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and open criminal proceedings regarding the actions of Semeryanov, Koltsova, the Dereka family and to check the role of the regional administration leadership.
Materials on the topic:
▫️How in Kharkiv region they squeeze villagers, and their land is given to “handpicked” farmers
▫️How the regional and national leadership allows lands in frontline districts to be taken and given to their favored farmers and protects them
▫️We demand that law enforcement leadership restore order with the little gods near the front
▫️How the green light for agro-raiding is given in frontline districts?
#нампишуть #рейдерство #земля
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