In May, we reported on Crimean provocations by the aggressor, exposed by journalists, in the marine fishing and fish-canning sectors. The focus was on the peninsula-based operations of commercial entities owned by Sergey and Natalya Lyutarevich, figures from Kaliningrad, specifically their control over the “Proliv” fish processing plant in Kerch and the “Arktika” cannery in the nearby village of Osoviny.
The previous beneficiaries of the “Proliv” plant were companies owned by Dnipro-based businessmen Yuriy Kryshyn and his son Oleg Kryshyn, known for their glass container manufacturing business, from whom the enterprise was seized in 2023 following “nationalization.”
We previously reported that the Lyutareviches had “registered” an entity named “Proliv 1873” in occupied Kerch, reporting revenue of 1.6 billion rubles in 2025, and noted that these businesspeople support Russian troops not only by supplying their own products but also by purchasing drones and other equipment used to kill Ukrainians.
Just recently, the sham “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov visited the Kerch plant; he stated that the enterprise “continues operations despite technological challenges” and emphasized that the plant had allegedly “passed into the ownership of the republic.”
However, this proved to be an easily exposed lie, as the occupation-era “registries” explicitly state that the Kerch-based entity “Proliv 1873”, with the aforementioned revenue from last year, was “established” by the Lutarevich family’s Kaliningrad-based firms, “Rybpromholding” and “Vektor,” while being managed by the Moscow-based company “Rybny Torgovy Dom,” which is controlled by the same Lutareviches through the Kaliningrad-based “Soyuzrybprom.”
Subsequent events involving these businessmen will reveal whether the current farce regarding claims of “republican ownership” is merely a cheap attempt to mask the transfer of the plant from the Kryshin family to the Lutareviches under the guise of “nationalization.”
