The Supreme Court has put an end to the case regarding the development of the botanical garden in Kyiv
The Supreme Court has definitively resolved the legal dispute between the M. M. Hryshko National Botanical Garden and the State Audit Service of Ukraine. A panel of judges from the Commercial Court of Cassation upheld the auditors’ right to keep a publication on their website regarding the risks of development on the garden’s grounds.
The article in question was published in January 2025 following an audit of the implementation of budget programs by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. During the audit, it was discovered that 116 hectares of state-owned land belonging to the NAS of Ukraine had been transferred to private developers, as well as a contract between the botanical garden and a construction company, the implementation of which posed a threat of residential construction on its grounds.
The botanical garden’s management attempted to have the publication removed through the courts, claiming it damaged its business reputation. The case was heard for over a year and a half, but the court overturned the decisions of the lower courts and ruled that the information published was lawful. The ruling dated September 8, 2026, has entered into force and is not subject to appeal.
This is stated in a press release from the State Audit Service.
Earlier, more than 6 hectares of land near the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine, valued at 95 million hryvnias, were returned to the Kyiv community.
On Andriivskyi Uzviz, a fence surrounding a hotel construction site was dismantled.
The Kyiv Commercial Court refused to grant the Kyiv City Council’s claim to return two plots totaling 375 hectares in the Troieshchyna Meadows Nature Reserve to the community’s ownership.
