During a working visit to the Kharkiv Oblast, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting on combating illegal natural-resource economic activity in the region. After all, the problem of illegal logging and destruction of forests is national, and this problem is very acute in the Kharkiv Oblast. This was reported by the presidential press service.
The president heard a report by the Director of the State Enterprise “Zhovtneve forestry” Ruslan Chagarovsky, who said that a group of people have organized illegal logging of the most expensive and most precious species with the further sale of timber abroad.
He also said about pressure on him and his family, which he associated with the audits initiated by him in the forest enterprise.
“We audited only 10% of the total area and found UAH 80 million losses. It is more than 8,000 cubic meters of wood. According to our calculations, when we make a full revision of the forestry including State Enterprise “Zhovtneve forestry”, then approximately this will be about UAH 200 million,” the director of the company said.
Chagarovsky called the names of those involved in illegal logging, and the president, in his turn, called on local law enforcement officials to pay attention to the problem and surnames which were called.
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