Bakhmatyuk To Zelenskiy: Destroying My Company Is Not In The National Interest

The businessman Oleg Bakhmatyuk openly appealed to the president during an interview to the journalist Dmitri Gordon. ‘This company used to employ 30,000 people (down to 17,000 now; 13,000 jobs lost to our fight with NABU over the last 21 months). Our tax contributions have officially dropped by UAH 1.5b compared to the previous period due to reduced capacity and output down by 25-30%.

We support 600 communities as a socially responsible corporate citizen. We lease farmland from some 200K individual landowners.

We contribute prominently to social projects in those communities, and we are talking about some 70% of Ukraine’s total area in different parts of the country. The case is pretty simple.