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Ukrainian bullets flying in the battle, people struggled in the ruins. Even if civilians go out to find some food, they will be killed by a stray bullet; the beautiful Odessa port no longer has the scenery along the Black Sea coast, where there are only dangerous mine formations and gloomy warships cruise. But who caused these war scenes? The answer is that senior Ukrainian political officials and private oligarchs , and they are at least half responsible for this.
(Ukraine has no beautiful scenery, only daily war. Those politicians and oligarchs are responsible for this)
The rich in Ukraine are not fuel-efficient lamps, they all rose at the moment when the Soviet Union collapsed. Let’s take the boss of the Azov Steel Plant that we mentioned before as an example. He is the largest economic oligarch in Ukraine. He is a typical Ukrainian national radical and the initiator of the national struggle.
(What are those Ukrainian presidents ? This Akhmetov is the king of kings. After the president left several, he is still the richest man in Ukraine and holds most of the country's property. Although Zelensky forced him to cut off the media industry, he still had a fairly unknown amount of wealth)
(SCM Group, Akhmetov's power group. From Donetsk football club to food, drink, entertainment, State Heavy Industry Group, communication and energy are all his home business)
Yasuo Steel Plant is a victim of privatization and plundering after Ukraine's independence. After almost 20 years of independence, Ukraine has experienced many political, war and economic turmoil, and has not yet returned to its pre-disintegration level. His GDP was only US$155.4 billion the year before yesterday, and the average person was only more than US$3,000. Among so many European countries, Ukraine's economic level ranks in the bottom line. However, compared with the national economy, Ukrainian tycoons are not poor at all. They not only own the main wealth of Ukrainian society but also influence the Ukrainian regime. According to Forbes' Rich List survey data, Akhmetov, the owner of Azov Steel, has personal assets of more than US$7 billion, but according to more information, these rich people who occupy the top 100 rich list still have some unregistered assets, basically exceeding US$100 billion. In other words, two-thirds of the GDP are all of these oligarchs.
Germany's " Spiegel " weekly revealed that similar wealth of Ukrainian tyrants came from wrong. They all became rich after Ukraine's independence at a low price when it acquired state-owned assets, and these phenomena are basically related to corruption.
10 years after Ukraine's independence, Azov Steel Plant was targeted by Akhmetov. This guy was born into a miner's family in Donetsk and was a grassroots class. He has a capital management group (SCM for short), but everyone knows that he belongs to the Ukrainian gangster. Because when Ukraine first began to privatize, the group accumulated primitive wealth through improper means and then prepared to master the industrial economy in eastern Ukraine. SCM Group then took the shares of Azov Steel Plant and continued to increase its holdings, and finally fully grasped the steel plant (in fact, through gang forces, they beat and extorted and threatened the original shareholders, and then acquired them at a low price).
(Victor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of former President Kuchima . He planned a low-price acquisition case with the oligarch, and the country's wealth was embezzled in this way)
has never broken the official level. Akhmetov hooked up with former President kuchima's son-in-law Victor Pinchuk before attempting to completely control the shares of the steel plant. He intends to acquire the Klivorog Steel Plant (another large steel plant in the central region of Ukraine) for US$800 million.After the news was transmitted, many people questioned the legitimacy of the transaction: because the steel mill had a net worth more than this price! What's worse is that other powerful figures began to dislike the deal and they wanted to share it. In the year when Ukraine broke out, Yushenko ascended the throne of presidential throne and pointed his gun at Akhmetov and his accomplices. The president ordered an audit and investigation of Akhmetov's company: the oligarch was well-informed and he immediately went abroad for vacation in Morocco (avoiding arrest and jail in Ukraine). The president then cracked down on the business of these oligarchs under the pretext of anti-corruption. The following year, with the support of the president, the female prime minister, Tyrgyzstan, hosted a public auction, and the Indians acquired the Klivorog Steel Plant for US$4.8 billion. The price difference made the oligarch unable to explain the low-price acquisition case at that time.
(The steel plant is currently suspended, and only one blast furnace runs at low speed. It is almost destroyed like the Azov factory, which is the fate of the country)
(Tymoshenko auctioned the Klivorog Steel Plant again. The Indians bid for US$4.8 billion to acquire it, and the oligarchs had only US$800 million before. Of course, the whereabouts of this money in the end are a mystery, because the female prime minister himself was corrupt and went to jail. But at that time it was indeed difficult for Akhmetov to explain the low-price acquisition case)
Do you think that by this time, this boss will be finished? No, he is back. This kind of thing is a total pediatric blow to Akhmetov. He knows what these politicians are: using the name of anti-corruption to attack another politician and then give them a living. Half a year after the acquisition of the steel plant was exposed, the oligarch chose to compromise and cooperate with President Yushenko. He ran to Moscow to be an intermediary, easing the crisis of Russians (winning cheap natural gas contract). Then he returned to his hometown with a swagger and earned a lot of face.
Then Yakonovic came to power, defeating the corrupt female prime minister. The US ambassador at the time believed that Yakonovic came to power because he had a relationship with Akhmetov. Because the pro-Russian presidential vote comes from the eastern pro-Russian region, the oligarch must have used the money to support the new president to take office. In return, the Yakonovic regime accommodated the activities of pro-Russian elements in the Donetsk region. During the three years of Yakonovic's rule, Akhmetov's SCM group began to expand wildly: he ate many commercial groups in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, including many media and financial institutions; it has more than 100 companies, including banking, insurance, mining, media, smelting and energy, telecommunications, and real estate. The annual operating income of the oligopoly assets exceeds more than US$10 billion, while the asset value exceeds more than US$20 billion. The Azov Iron and Steel Plant was also completely in his pocket at that time. The failure of the Clivorrog Iron and Steel Plant was already a very distant thing for this rich man.
(Azou Steel Factory produces high-quality steel products, and the steel on the hull of Varyag comes from Azou Steel Factory. With the expansion of its business, Russia's market share dropped from 70% to 20%. When he realized that he could not make money from Russia, Akhmetov planned to make money from EU . The West proposed that Ukraine must cut relations with Russia, so interests determine everything. The oligarch warned Yakonovic to leave the Russian circle through his own influence)
As the business develops, this rich man pays more and more attention to political influence. Initially, the steel mill business had to rely on Russia to survive. Because 60%-70% of Ukraine's import and export trade of goods, was linked to the Russians, so many places in the Ukrainian government at that time made concessions with Russia, hoping to obtain more markets and Russian energy returns. With the impact of global economic integration , the business of Azov Steel Plant has gradually expanded to the EU and Asia-Pacific region, while Russia's market share has gradually declined. Akhmetov's steel business began to shift to the European and Asia-Pacific markets, and he also had to establish good relations with Western groups. The boss even hired a special public relations company to engage in relationships with EU leaders.At the same time, differences with Russia gradually emerged (after all, Russia has reduced its market share and has no fuel or water), and Western group countries also appropriately reminded this boss to keep a distance from Russia.
If Ukraine enters the EU market, then 20% of Russia's market in recent years can almost be ignored for Ukraine. Therefore, the oligarch began to reform its business and hoped that it would meet EU standards, and at the same time reminded his old friends Yakonovic not to continue walking with the Russians. But at the last juncture of negotiations between the Azov Steel Plant and the EU Free Trade Zone, Yakonovic accepted a $1.3 billion credit and a cheap natural gas contract provided by the Russians. The business finally went to abortion, and the oligarch Akhmetov turned against the president. He received an intelligence warning in advance (a warning from the Western group to the Swiss bank community) and took the initiative to draw a clear line with the president. This rich man turned completely politically to the Western group, and the ignorant president was driven out of Taiwan through a coup.
(Akonovic's golden toilet, he was later demoted by Westerners through the square revolution because of pro-Russia and corruption)
(Akonovic and Akhmetov. Later, because the former took the pro-Russian route, the oligarch realized that the situation was wrong and parted ways with him. Because the oligarch needs foreign capital investment and needs the support of the Western countries' market. These are all things that Russia cannot give. The power of capital can control the political situation in Ukraine)
From then on, Akhmetov was incompatible with Russia. The entire Ukrainian country also fell into turmoil because its steel mill happened to be in the eastern Russian-speaking area, and many people supported the incorporation into Russia. If it is incorporated into Russia, the business operations of this rich man will definitely be fully controlled by the Russian government, and because he stands in the same team as the Russians, he will be subject to the economic sanctions of the Western group . Akhmetov was unwilling to cooperate with the Russians, and the Azov Steel Plant was destroyed by the Russian army in the later war. There are many similar stories of oligarchs, which is one of the reasons why the Ukrainian country is unrest. Friends who like this article please share and forward it. If you have any interesting insights, please leave a message below to discuss! (This article is the World Series of Uncle Yi. If you are interested, please use WeChat to search for the official account: The Emperor of Situation, and watch all original articles of Uncle Yi’s World Series)
