In the coming days, delivery of 49 open-body vehicles (pickups) to the company’s branches will begin. The “Stolychnyi Forest Office” branch will receive the largest number this year — 14 vehicles. Cars will also be supplied to the Slobozhanskyi, Skhidnyi, Podilsky, Pivnichnyi, Poliskyi, Karpatskyi, and Tsentralnyi Forest Offices.
The deliveries will take place in two stages — an additional 37 pickups will be supplied next year. Purchasing a larger batch of vehicles from a single manufacturer helps reduce the price. The procurement was conducted through Prozorro, and savings from the expected cost amounted to almost 4 million UAH. The State Audit Service of Ukraine verified the purchase and found no violations of public procurement law.
What tasks will the new equipment be used for?
✔️ Most of the open-body vehicles will be equipped with forest firefighting modules with a capacity of 0.5 m³ or more, which will enhance firefighting efficiency, especially in frontline regions.
✔️ Part of the fleet will be used by forest rangers to detect illegal logging and combat poaching.
✔️ The new vehicles will also serve production needs — monitoring harvesting operations, receiving, and shipping forest products at warehouses.
For proper operation, each forestry unit should ideally have at least 2–3 functioning cars. Before the establishment of the SFE “Forests of Ukraine,” there were fewer than one vehicle per forestry unit.
Reasons include:
Aging vehicle fleet;
Since 2022, foresters have transferred over 1,000 vehicles to the front, including more than 100 passenger cars;
Support for newly attached frontline forest enterprises in Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Kherson regions, which were left without transport due to hostilities.
The enterprise is gradually investing in updating its fleet. In 2024 alone, it purchased 250 vehicles — pickups and budget SUVs. Another 130 off-road cars have already been acquired this year by the SFE “Forests of Ukraine.”
As a result, most forestry units have received new vehicles. After the delivery of the new batch of pickups, the area serviced by a single vehicle will be significantly reduced.