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Private “feudal republic” in Kharkiv region: ex-SBU officer Strelnikov, under the HOVA “protection,” is squeezing land away
While the frontline-adjacent #Харківщина suffers daily shelling and ordinary villagers try to survive and feed their families during the full-scale war, a cynical redistribution of property is unfolding in the region. Officials and security forces built a scheme of forced land seizure, turning citizens’ shares into a source of their own enrichment.
The organizer of the land racket is the former head of the Chuhuiv interdistrict department of the SBU, #Стрельніков. With the support of subordinates, he launched a campaign of intimidation against land-share owners, forcing them to lease their land to the farming family #Дерека for laughably small sums. For those who resist, they found a “universal solution”: ❗ agreements are simply executed without the owners’ participation through state registrars under their control. Under this scheme the organized group seized nearly 1700 hectares of land!
The core of the fraud was the concentration of 639 plots totaling 1391,8720 ha in favor of the farm enterprise “#ДРУЖБА INVEST” (EDRPOU 41234589). The scheme was implemented through 331 lease agreements, 282 sublease agreements, acquisition of existing rights, and re-registration of ownership. Villagers were paid a pittance for the left shares — 3% of the normative monetary valuation. That is only 4170,55 UAH per year for 2,99 ha or 2178,17 UAH for 2 ha. 🤷♂️ At the same time the land was tied up with contracts for 15, 25 or even 49 years with the right of automatic renewal and sublease.
📍 At the same time, INGVAR PLUS LLC (EDRPOU 33861599) operates, where the founder and beneficiary is Hennadii #Дерека. He entered into deals with his own company: on 12 December 2023 he transferred to the firm two plots (6,96 ha and 7,45 ha) immediately for 30 years — until 2053. The financial appetites of the schemers are striking: revenues of the farm enterprise “DRUZHBA INVEST” grew from 8,35 million UAH in 2022 to 27,86 million UAH in 2025, and the forecast for 2026 is over 💰 40,9 million UAH with assets of 42,1 million UAH.
The cynicism is that in 2025 the enterprise officially employed only 8 people — that is 3,48 million UAH revenue per employee. 🔻 Meanwhile INGVAR PLUS LLC generated 15,63 million UAH in revenue with assets of 24,3 million UAH.
📌 The highest level of “patronage” for this scheme leads directly to the offices of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration. HOVA head Oleh #Синєгубов effectively coordinates this redistribution, while local community leaders obediently report to him the number of seized plots. A clear vertical is working in the region that, during the war, deprives people of the right to their own land.
The post on this topic gathered as many as 2,4 thousand likes, 200 comments and 500 reposts. ❗This situation provokes rightful indignation among citizens:
“They don’t have a war, they have a time for enrichment”
“Scoundrels — bury them in that land.”
“Senehubova should be jailed, she’s a corrupt thief”
Fabricated agreements, registration lawlessness and land racketeering under the cover of security forces and regional leadership — this is not just corruption, it is a direct encroachment on the country’s food and economic security during the war. If law enforcement does not immediately enter information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and stop this outrage, a logical question arises: how does local land feudalism differ from enemy looting?
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▫️Former SBU official and local crooks stole 1700 hectares of land from Kharkiv communities
▫️Will the purges in #СБУ, started by #Поклад, be meaningful, or is the system rotten through?
▫️How in Kharkiv region villagers are being squeezed and their land given to “handpicked” farmers
▫️How regional and national leadership allow lands in frontline districts to be taken and given to their favored farmers and to be covered up for them
▫️We demand that law enforcement leadership restore order with the local bosses near the front
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