SFE “Forests of Ukraine” supplied firewood to residents of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions despite a challenging security situation!

Branch “Skhidnyi Forest Office” tripled its timber harvesting in the second quarter. Over Q2, the branch sold more than 4,000 m³ of timber.

In Q2 2025, Skhidnyi Forest Office sold 1,800 m³ of firewood to household consumers. In all forestry units of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions where harvesting takes place, firewood of all categories, both hardwood and softwood, is available in ample supply and freely accessible.

A difficult situation exists in the frontline forestry units, where harvesting is temporarily impossible due to their proximity to the front line, namely Huliaipilske (Zaporizhzhia Region) and Velykomykhailivske and Mezhivske forestry units (Dnipropetrovsk Region). Employees’ families have been evacuated to safer areas. However, the workers continue to commute and perform their duties on-site. If the situation deteriorates further, they will be offered vacant positions at other forestry units.

Since the beginning of the year, operations have been suspended at the Nikopolske, Marhanetske, and Apostolivske forestry units. Skhidnyi Forest Office has appealed to local authorities with a proposal to partially restore their operations. Residents are being supplied with firewood from other forestry units, but the greater distances increase the final cost.

Given that the region is resource-poor, its own revenues from timber sales are insufficient to sustain operations. Therefore, SFE “Forests of Ukraine” provides extensive support with equipment for wildfire suppression, forest-crop maintenance, and timber harvesting. In particular, the branch recently received six forest firefighting modules, now mounted on pickups, and five hydraulic grapples for tractors used in timber skidding.

Skhidnyi Forest Office is also working toward self-sufficiency: tighter control over timber allocations and harvesting has boosted merchantable timber output by 30%, and the share of industrial use firewood sold through the exchange has also increased.