KYIV, Sept 3 – France's Auchan Holding, chain of supermarkets and trade centers in Ukraine, has confirmed it has lost land plots in the village of Lymanka, Odesa region, said it was going to defend its rights.

"In 2013, Auchan Group of Companies became the owner of the land plots in Odesa region with the special purpose for the construction of a shopping and entertainment center with parking. Today we have to state that a foreign investor was deprived of the property rights though there was inviolable principle guaranteed by the Constitution," the company told Interfax-Ukraine.