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Over the past month, numerous meetings have been held with representatives of the wood processing industry. The main topic of discussion was resource supply.

SFE “Forests of Ukraine” emphasized that comparing current harvesting volumes with pre-war levels is not appropriate.

One of the key factors currently limiting harvesting is the presence of landmines in the forests.

The area of mined forests within the territory managed by SFE “Forests of Ukraine” alone (not including forestry enterprises in the Donetsk and Kherson regions, which have not yet been integrated into our structure) reaches 310,000 hectares.

Timber harvesting is significantly restricted in the Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions. The Iziumske Forestry Management Unit in the Kharkiv region alone has approximately 140,000 hectares of mined land.

We asked our regional branches to calculate their annual losses.

The greatest loss is reported by the resource-rich Branch “Stolychnyi Forest Office”  — 920,000 m³ of commercial timber per year. This amounts to approximately UAH 3.3 billion!

At Branch “Pivnichnyi Forest Office”, more than 92,000 hectares remain inaccessible, including 22,000 hectares of mined land. As a result, the branch is unable to supply 330,000 m³ of timber products, leading to annual losses of UAH 965 million.

At Branch “Slobozhanskyi Forest Office”, 142,000 hectares of forest are mined. Each year, local foresters are unable to harvest 350,000 m³ of timber, resulting in losses of UAH 600 million.

In total, the enterprise loses 1.6 million m³ of timber annually, which amounts to nearly UAH 5 billion, part of which could have been allocated to taxes and fees.

If you add these losses to the current harvesting volume, you get almost the same amount that forestry enterprises under the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine harvested before the war.