Oleg Bakhmatyuk's Ukrlandfarming Group Suffers Hundreds of Millions of US Dollars in Losses from the Russian Aggression

Russian troops in the temporarily occupied territories continue to loot and destroy Ukrainian businesses. The Ukrlandfarming group of companies, owned by the Ukrainian businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk, is suffering losses measured in the hundreds of millions of US dollars inflicted through the criminal actions of the occupiers.

Europe's largest egg farm, Chornobaivske in Kherson Region, in which the company has invested $300 million, has been left without the ability to feed the flock, shuttle employees to work or export finished products as a consequence of the military aggression of the Russian Federation condemning the flock to death and posing the risk of a major environmental disaster. The egg farm has been completely cut off from power and production has come to a complete halt. More than 4 million adult laying hens and some 700,000 young pullets have died with no possibility of disposal. Direct losses from the disruption of operations by the occupiers have reached some 800 million hryvnias, while total financial losses caused by the Russian aggression currently stand at 1.5 billion hryvnias. Egg farms owned by the group in Makarov and Brovary in Kyiv Region have also been destroyed. Those farms have lost some 1m birds.

The group’s regional offices in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and Novoraysk in Kherson region, where machinery, plant protection products, mineral fertilisers, seeds and other inventory worth millions of dollars were being stored, are being looted with the loot taken out by the occupiers. Tractors, combines, farming machines, drones - 70 units of John Deer equipment, 26 vehicles and drones used in land farming operations have been lost.

The enemy  has stolen 12 thousand tons of sunflower seeds from the PSP Dobrobut grain elevator in Khlebodarivka, Volnovakha Municipality, Donetsk Region, looting and destroying the infrastruture of the facility. Equipment has been destroyed with a laboratory, a weighing facility and an office plundered. Damage from the criminal activities of the invaders at this facility amounts to some $12 million. 

Earlier, an air raid and fire destroyed the company's grain elevator near Ovruch in Zhytomyr Region.

Also in Luhansk Region, in the village of Kamyanka, Novopskiv Municipality, the occupiers have also seized the cattle farm Aidar-AN-Myaso along with its plant equipment.

40% of the the group’s land portfolio is under occupation or located in areas where active hostilities have taken place and where it is impossible to carry out the sowing campaign. In particular, control over some 100K hectares of land in Kherson Region has been lost. Control over land in other regions occupied by the aggressor has also been lost. In particular, a total of 6,500 hectares of land at the Engels plant in Luhansk Region is now outside the group’s control.

The Ukrlandfarming Group has recorded the crimes of the occupiers. We are confident that the invaders will be held accountable for all the crimes  that have been committed against the country's civilian population and critical infrastructure facilities.