The Supreme Court has ended the years-long dispute over a plot of more than two hectares near the Kampa residential complex in Bucha: the City Council's cassation appeal was granted, and developer Komfort LTD was definitively denied a lease renewal.

The ruling was issued by the Commercial Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court on 1 July 2026.

The lease on the municipally owned plot expired back in 2020, yet the conflict between the former tenant and the city lasted almost seven years — the case went through several court rounds and drew the attention of the Anti-Raiding Office. Now the ruling of the Kyiv Oblast Commercial Court, upheld by the Supreme Court, keeps the forest with the community.

Bucha activists publicly thanked the panel of judges — Larysa Rohach, Serhii Mohyl and Hryhorii Machulskyi. For residents it is a victory in the fight for one of the city's last forest tracts.

Back in 2024 the City Council reserved the area for a nature reserve. With the plot now legally cleared, the council promises to finalise the protected status quickly, backed by the Kyiv Regional Council and the head of its ecology commission Roman Tytykalo.

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