Billionaire banking tycoon Igor Kolomoisky was appointed governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a region in the east of the country that includes Ukraine’s third-largest city, in March last year. He had one job — to prevent the territory from falling into the hands of pro-Moscow rebels. Although he was a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko’s new government in Kiev, they had neither the financial nor military clout to allow him to achieve that aim. As such Kolomoisky decided to build his own private army of volunteers equipped with heavy weaponry and paid for all of this from out of his …read more
Source: Business Insider
