Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

AMCU has allowed former deputy head of Naftogaz Oleksandr Katsuba to buy Zemli Slobozhanshchyny

At its meeting on February 5, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) granted Landex Agro LLC permission to acquire direct control over Zemli Slobozhanshchyny LLC.

According to the regulator’s Facebook post, this involves the acquisition of assets that provide control over the enterprise.

Lands Agro LLC (Lozova, Kharkiv region) was registered at the end of 2023. The ultimate beneficiary of the company is businessman Alexander Katsuba, former deputy chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine. Given the purchase of a number of agricultural enterprises in the Kharkiv region, he is currently forming a new agricultural group.

In particular, in December 2025, Katsuba formed a land bank by purchasing more than 6,000 hectares of land in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region from the Novaagro group. In addition to the agricultural business, where he also owns the companies Ivak Agro, Lozovsky Agropromtechservice, and the agricultural firm Podolevskaya, Katsuba is the owner of the gas production company Alfa Gas and the online publications Avtocenter and AvtoBazar.

Zemli Slobozhanshchyny LLC was established in 2023 and has its headquarters in Kharkiv. It specializes in real estate transactions and auxiliary activities in crop production.

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