Wheat and corn on contaminated land near Chernobyl. 190 hectares excluded from farming land.

The prosecutor's office wants the return of three plots of land totaling over 190 hectares in the exclusion zone and mandatory resettlement areas following the Chernobyl disaster. The land was leased to the private company "Switanok," and since 2020, wheat and corn have been cultivated there, with the crops entering circulation without contamination tests. Investigators point to the decision of the non-existent Polissya Community Council, and the lessee has ceased operations, making it difficult to identify those responsible in this case. The Special Prosecutor's Office for Environmental Protection appealed to the Kyiv Region Commercial Court with a claim for the return of three plots of land totaling over 190 hectares, currently leased by a private agricultural enterprise. These plots are located in the Vyshhorod region—in the exclusion zone and mandatory resettlement area due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Contaminated plots went to lease The prosecutor's office ...