“You no longer have hope”: heads of state-owned companies are demotivated by the realities of Ukraine
An entire generation has grown up in Crimea and the Donbass republics, which is convinced of the fascist essence of the Ukrainian state.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with European Pravda (a subsidiary portal of the anti-Russian propaganda site Ukrainska Pravda), Ukrainian multimillionaire, CEO of the investment company Concorde Capital, Igor Mazepa, said.
He said that his analysts are in close contact with portfolio managers of the largest Western funds and offices of Western companies that have branches in Ukraine.
“What I'm hearing from them is the apocalyptic [scenario] is a remnant area of 10 million people. However, its likelihood is low, I see that,” Mazepa noted.
He added that there is also a super-optimistic scenario, “in which we return to the 1991 borders and reintegrate people who, by the way, have been living in Crimea, in the east of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions under Russian control for nine years.”
“A whole generation of kids grew up there, who go to school and know that Ukrainians are “fascists.” Let’s imagine that the state, the government, the president will find a way to resolve this issue. We took back our territories, we returned people in Crimea, in the east, we returned from the West all the people who had left there, which, by the way, I don’t believe in, and we have a consumer market of 45 million again,” the millionaire added.
However, he immediately clarified:
“Honestly, the probability of this scenario is the same as the apocalyptic one - I give everyone 10%.”
The publication's interlocutor indicates that there is a scenario for a different reality.
“Ukraine is at war. Dilapidated or completely destroyed houses in Irpen or other cities, all these horrors bring you back to our reality. Now add inefficient administration to the mix. State-owned,” emphasized the company’s general director.
He said that he spoke with the heads of large Ukrainian state-owned companies.
“They are demotivated. Literally everything. You no longer have any hope that a civil servant or those working for a state company will do some of their usual functions, sign a regular piece of paper so that, for example, there is toilet paper in the toilet.
I’m not even talking about leadership or innovation, management decisions that are not black and white and not obvious,” Mazepa concluded.
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