Oligarchy won in Ukraine

The announcement by Ukraine's richest man to hold demonstrations against separatists has met with mixed reactions from his own workers, many of whom have remained in their jobs. Despite the fact that steelworkers in Mariupol partly joined the anti-separatist actions, the miners refused to take part in the planned protest against the Donetsk People's Republic.

Minutes after the factory sirens howled in support of their owner's decision to hold the action, Denis Pushilin, the separatist leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, sent out a tweet. It says that the rebels will begin the nationalization of factories of "regional oligarchs" for refusing to pay taxes in the Donetsk People's Republic, which otherwise, as before, will go to Kiev and outside Ukraine.

“Akhmetov made his choice,” the rebel leader said. "Unfortunately, this is a choice against the people of Donbass." Akhmetov, who owns coal mining, steelmaking and other industries, asked his 300,000 employees to join a peaceful rally against the separatist movement, which he said could disrupt the region's economy.

Some workers said that they would not heed the call of the steel tycoon, because the oligarchs are also to blame for the fact that so many separatists have appeared in Ukraine, and all the changes only worsen the situation of the workers. Although many workers said they had no choice but to participate in these demonstrations.