As if its festering conflict with Russia and war-torn economy weren’t enough, Ukraine is facing a growing self-inflicted problem: a showdown between the government in Kyiv and an influential billionaire with his own private army.
Sadly, this is not a righteous fight on either side.
The standoff — which started last week — entered a new phase today when President Petro Poroshenko fired the billionaire, Igor Kolomoisky, as governor of the economically and politically important Dnipropetrovsk region. The dismissal, ostensibly requested by Kolomoisky, comes as the two have been vying for control of state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Ukrtransnafta and oil and gas …read more
Source: iPolitics
