It’s true that Ukraine’s oligarchs corrupted the Ukrainian state and undermined effective reform and development, preventing it from escaping from its post-Soviet stagnation. But they were also a key protective mechanism against anyone else usurping power.
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Two British citizens captured by Russian forces in Ukraine have been paraded on Russian state television appealing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to exchange them for a close friend of Vladimir Putin held in Ukraine.