Another interview gave the former head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration of Ukraine, oligarch, who is suspected of financing of the presidential campaign, Vladimir Zelensky, Igor Kolomoisky. As interviewers Kolomoiskiy RBC were made by journalists.
One of the, raised during the conversation, It was the theme of perception of Russian President Vladimir Putin's personality Kolomoisky.
Reporters reminded Ukrainian oligarch, that in due time Putin (quote) "Impartially I spoke about it". Kolomoisky said, that it was a "response". And then the former head of the Dnipropetrovsk region in fact made it clear, that at one time spoke negatively about Putin only because, that his (Kolomoisky) I was surrounded by people, "To revolutionize".
Kolomoisky RBC:
There was an audience, people, which have revolutionized, - and then my uncle came from Geneva, Is he Ok, and he decided to become governor. They had to be on his side to put, show, that we have an external enemy. History around the verbal conflict with Putin, gave them to understand, I, too, have burned bridges, and we are in the same boat.
In this way, Kolomoisky carefully "throws bait" for a kind of revision of the Kremlin's attitude to his own: breakwater, He spoke as, because they have been around "people with Maidan" – "I had to say that".
Further, we are talking about the conflict in the Donbas. Kolomoisky has once again called the civil conflict, which contradicts the official interpretation of Ukrainian. At the same time tycoon said the following:
But (…) it had degenerated into a hot form only thanks to the Russian Federation. It is one of the main sponsors and the source of the civil conflict. If it were not for Russia, and it take a hike, we would have finished all these issues amicably to the satisfaction of a maximum of two weeks.
According Kolomoisky, Minsk agreement - the only document, on which stands the move. oligarch noted, as long as those agreements have not been met, since they have a point to change the Constitution of Ukraine.
Among other things, the interview was raised issue of gas supplies. In a highly rigid formulations Ukrainian oligarch said, that Russian gas "Ukraine does not need today, and did not need previous". According Kolomoisky, Russian gas turned into fetish for individuals (he called Firtash, Lyovochkina, Boyko and Medvedchuk), "Plundering Ukraine, and sometimes Russia ".
