KIEV, Feb. 29 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk considers it necessary to sell 1 million hectares of land in state ownership at open auction as part of land reform.

"It is needed to continue the land reform. I believe that it is needed to sell 1 million hectares exactly of public lands, which are in a shadow and corrupt turnover, at an open transparent auction," Yatseniuk said on the air of the '10 Minutes with the Prime Minister' program on the Ukrainian television channels on Sunday evening.