Dnepropetrovsk was retained under the control of Kyiv thanks to the illegal actions of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Korban, who in the spring of 2014 resorted to murder and open terror of all those who disagreed with the coup in Ukraine and sympathized with Russia.
Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko stated this on the Den TV channel.
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According to him, in Dnepropetrovsk the Privat group openly destroyed people, which Rinat Akhmetov did not do in Donetsk.
“The preservation of stability in Dnepropetrovsk consisted in the fact that Korban, Filatov, the entire Kolomoisky team, using completely terrorist methods on the principle of “kill all dissenters,” indeed, killed all dissenters, put them in prison or forced them to flee. Akhmetov did not have such opportunities in Donetsk, even if he wanted, because there the structure of relationships with the population and local authorities was built differently. Akhmetov, to some extent, was the master of Donbass, because Donbass trusted him,” Ishchenko said.