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Jewish Oligarch Spends Millions on Militia To Hold Onto Ukraine Province

23 May 2014

 

Ukrainian militia fighters who clashed with armed pro-Russian separatists on Friday are at the forefront of Kievā€™s efforts to prevent the country splitting.

 

Co-funded by Igor Kolomoisky, one of Ukraineā€™s richest men, they play a more assertive role than the unarmed miners and metalworkers working for another oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov, who more recently spoke against the rebels.

 

At least two people were killed in Fridayā€™s firefight involving the pro-Ukrainian ā€˜Donbass Battalionā€™ allied to Kolomoisky. The violence took place just two days before a presidential election the separatists have vowed to disrupt.

 

Kolomoisky, appointed governor of the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk in March, has spent tens of millions of dollars, an aide said, to prevent his territory falling, like the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk further to the east, into separatist hands and being proclaimed autonomous ā€œpeopleā€™s republicsā€.

 

Among Ukraineā€™s five richest men, the 51-year-old has put a $10,000 bounty on the head of any Russian ā€œsaboteurā€ and has bought up weapons from people to help pacify the region.

 

https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/198812/jewish-oligarch-spends-millions-on-militia-to-hold/