It appears that the truce that has held between Ukraine’s major oligarchs since the Maidan uprising is breaking down.
Yesterday evening, Igor Kolomoisky, the strongman governor of Dniepropetrovsk, who also happens to be personally bankrolling many of the militias fighting Russian-backed militants on the eastern front, sent a detachment of camouflaged, armed men into Kiev to seize the offices of Ukrnafta, the state oil company in which Kolomoisky has a large ownership stake (42%), and which is still currently being run by his loyalists.
This morning, Petro Poroshenko ordered Ukraine’s security services to disarm Kolomoisky’s men. No word yet on what has …read more
Source: The American Interest
