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Auditors have identified systemic violations.
“Lesy Ukrainy” is one of the state enterprises with the highest salaries for its leadership. After corporatization, top managers’ payments rose to millions of hryvnias per month, and the salaries of deputy directors of departments reached hundreds of thousands of hryvnias. At the same time, problems with corruption at the enterprise persist. This is written by OBOZ.UA with reference to auditors’ data.
Salaries during the war.
The corporatization of the enterprise has already affected the income of its management. In 2025 year, the highest-paid executive director of Lesy Ukrainy was Ihor Litsur, who earned 18,5 million UAH, of which 8,6 million UAH was a bonus. On average, this is about 1,5 million UAH per month.
Former general director of Lesy Ukrainy, Yuriy Bolokhovets, from January to the end of June 2026 year earned 13,2 million UAH. On average, this is 2,2 million UAH per month. At the same time, at the time of dismissal Bolokhovets could receive compensation for unused vacation.
Directors of departments last year earned from 13,7 million to nearly 17 million UAH. Each of them received annual bonuses of at least 5 million UAH.
High salaries also among mid-level managers. Recently, Tetiana Melnyk, who worked as deputy director of the Department of the State Enterprise “Lesy Ukrainy,” won a court case. By June 2025 year her official salary was 321 600 UAH.
Corruption.
“The situation in the forest sector shows that corporatization by itself does not eliminate disorder. Indeed, we confirmed the fact that payments to managers reached one million hryvnias per month. This is significantly more than the heads of key state-run enterprises receive,” Alla Basalaieva, head of the State Audit Service, told OBOZ.UA in an interview.
According to the audit data, last year alone branches of the State Enterprise “Lesy Ukrainy” signed contracts for a variety of works totaling about 10 billion UAH. The efficiency and legality of using these funds revealed systemic problems. In particular, state forestry enterprises are effectively being removed from independent economic activity in favor of certain private companies and newly created intermediary firms.
As ZN.UA wrote, the forest sector faces as severe a problem as in the energy sector: transparent operation of the supervisory board of the State Enterprise “Lesy Ukrainy,” which the Cabinet of Ministers 2022 year, by dissolving forestry enterprises, handed over all 6,6 million hectares of national natural resources for industrial exploitation with a timber stock of 1,5 billion cubic meters, to a non-specified industrial operator. Read about it in the article "Pie and a whip for the forest sector overseers."
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