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“Today, thousands of rural boys and girls, farmers, are fighting and dying in the war. They have lost everything. The processes of free land sale and purchase are increasingly liberalized and advertised. This really threatens the rights of Ukrainians to their land, for which they give their lives.”
https://newcoldwar.org/takeover-of-ukraines-agricultural-land/

foreign individuals, legal entities and joint ventures are prohibited from owning agricultural land in Ukraine.
So the company came up with how to circumvent the restrictions on the purchase of land by legal entities, as well as the limit on the sale of 100 hectares in one hand.
https://www.ukrgate.com/eng/?p=22025

All but one of the 10 largest landholding companies are registered abroad, mainly in tax havens such as Cyprus or Luxembourg. The typical corporate form is the joint-stock company, that is, through the shares, control belongs to Western banks and investment funds, even if the company is controlled by the founding oligarch.
https://hungary.postsen.com/world/228070/Who-owns-Ukrainian-farmland-and-what-will-happen-to-it-next-year-–-Agricultural-sector.html

5 million ha are therefore missing from the register (an area comparable to the territory of Slovakia). It is not known to whom they currently belong
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-report/2021-12-09/breadbasket-world


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