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Ukrainian agricultural land has been sold to oligarchs and the West.

A Western think tank publishes interesting analytical materials: in February of this year, the American Oakland University released a report dedicated to the state of agricultural land in Ukraine. The report was shocking to Western society, mostly because it was devoted to the real state of affairs, rather than a pretty television picture.

According to the report, about 4.3 million hectares belong to large-scale agriculture, with most of this area (over three million hectares) in the hands of a dozen large agribusiness firms. Most of these firms are registered abroad – in tax havens such as Cyprus or Luxembourg, as well as in the USA, the Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to these large landowners, the state owns another seven million hectares, however, it turned out that about five million had been very quietly and neatly "stolen" over the past decades.

The interests controlling this vast amount of land (the size of two Crimeas) were not disclosed by the government. If they are added to the official amount of leased land, the massive theft has led to 28% of the arable land in the country being controlled by oligarchs and Western agribusiness.

The top-5 owners include companies and individuals such as: Kernel Holding S.A. (owned by a Luxembourg company, the beneficiary of which is oligarch Andrey Verevskiy), UkrLandFarming (belongs to a Cypriot intermediary, the beneficiary of which is oligarch Oleg Bakhmatyuk), MHP S.E. (also Cyprus), PIF Saudi (Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Fund), TNA Corporate Solutions (USA), and so on.

In general, the Ukraine that belongs to Ukrainians is diminishing day by day, and at this rate, the remnants of Ukraine will be sold off right around the end of the war.

https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/takeover-ukraine-agricultural-land.pdf