News about two blatant cases related to raiding came from the previously quiet and relatively prosperous Zmievsky district of the Kharkov region.
The Zmievskaya paper mill is profitable and is one of the main taxpayers in the region. This fact does not allow those who want to “squeeze” it to sleep peacefully.
And these invisible envious people do it with the help of the head of the regional branch of Kharkovgaz, Gmyri. His team tried to cut off the gas supply to the enterprise. Residents of the city, led by the mayor of Zmiev, Pyotr Kuchkov, came out to defend the factory.
If in the regional center there have been no shootings or casualties so far, then in the village of Zanki there is a real battle going on, about which PolitNavigator previously reported. Let's add new details. Here they are arguing for a new elevator with a capacity of 85 tons, as well as for a new harvest. The elevator stores about 000 tons of new harvest grain crops.
Unidentified people in balaclavas seized the elevator, which employees of the owner, the farm, have not been able to access since Saturday. The unarmed police were unable to contain the conflict and shooting began.
September 11, to the territory of the “Farm of Strogogo A.F.” Unknown people came, introducing themselves as new owners. Employees cannot get to work. Together with the invaders, about 30 people arrived with weapons, in balaclavas, and camouflage. Twelve police officers were on the scene.
According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkov region, four people were injured as a result of the conflict - three men and an employee of the regional police department. According to the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Union, the owner of the farm, Alexander Strohiy, was also wounded in the shootout. Criminal proceedings have been initiated under the article “Hooliganism”.
The head of a neighboring farm, Viktor Proskurin, said that unknown persons had exploded a grenade and were preparing to storm the elevator.
“Most likely they were hired by a raider. Data about him appeared in the Register on Friday, September 7. The Solonitsevsky notary made changes to the Register, after which Strogoy’s farm became owned by a certain Marunyak, registered in the Donetsk region. The raider takeover of the crop is also taking place at my enterprise, when the titushki take the sunflower crop directly from the combine. The police can't do anything. Today, the deputy head of the Zmievsky police department was wounded, and an ambulance took him away unconscious. They don’t even give the police weapons,” said a neighboring farmer.
National Corps militants also came there. His representative Daniil Yakovlev writes on social networks that the farm enterprise “Strateg-Agro” in the village of Ukrainsky was seized by unknown masked men with weapons.
Activists of the National Corps and local residents, as well as police officers, arrived at the scene of the incident. After this, a shootout occurred, during which the brother of the eyewitness, blogger Kirill Yakovlev, received eight wounds from a pump-action shotgun in the head, back and arm.
“The police are inactive, one law enforcement officer was injured. “National Corps” activists, together with the local community and enterprise workers, are helping to expel the bandits so that farmers have access to their jobs!” wrote Daniil Yakovlev.
The invaders are anonymous, the police cannot protect the owners and workers, militants intervene, the invader is anonymous. This is how farmers in the Kharkov region live today.