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The business world is often cold and impersonal, but the respect and fame that Oleksiy Vadatursky gained throughout his life has led to almost all Ukrainian businessmen, including his rivals, treating him as “grandmother”. He was one of the richest people in Ukraine with a fortune estimated at 400 million euros, acquired mainly through grain export business.
Aleksey Vadatursky was born in 1947 in a village near Odessa and began his career as an engineer, running a chain of state bakeries in a country hit by the Holodomor, the great Ukrainian famine declared by Stalin. It was then that he realized the weakness of the Soviet agrarian system.who, together with the collective farms, did not encourage the sowing of wheat.
After gaining independence, Oleksiy Vadatursky fundou a Nebulon, an agricultural company engaged in the cultivation of wheat. Despite initial difficulties at a time when Ukraine – as a sovereign state – was reorganized, the businessman managed to succeed in the middle, Account Al-Jazeera, which made one of the main contributions to Ukraine becoming one of the main exporters of wheat.
In the business world, one of the greatest strengths of Alexei Vadatursky was for the control he exercised in the river ports, which has existed since Soviet times. Critics noted that the businessman did everything to save river management monopoly in Ukraine – and did not hesitate to extend his influence to the political sphere. It is not surprising that his son, Andrei Vadatursky, was in parliament or that in recent months he has tried to manipulate former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s centre-right party to his advantage.
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However, unlike many tycoons, most Ukrainians treated Aleksey Vadatursky favorably. “He worked. He didn’t exploit the Soviet industrial legacy. He built his empire in the countryside,” Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev recalled to Al Jazeera, describing him as the man who “created Ukraine’s miracle of grain exports.”
The popularity of Alexei Vadatursky was also due to the fact that he was a patriot. He financed the army from the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. and in 2018 he was blacklisted by Russia. After the invasion the tycoon decided to stay in Ukrainein relation to the majority of Ukrainian oligarchs who fled abroad.
Oleksiy Vidaturskiy fiku in Ukraine, but I knew my life was in danger. He lived in Nikolaev, not far from the front of the war, and was not particularly liked in the Kremlin. However, respectively It is reported by Corriere dela Sera, citing Ukrainian sources. Russia has come a proportionshortly after the invasion, which tycoon to become a secret accomplice of the Russian regime.
Russia wanted to use Oleksiy Vadatursky’s influence in the agricultural and business world, thus being able to quickly capture southern Ukraine, as well as cutting off access to the Kyiv river ports. In return, Moscow promised to protect the tycoon’s assets, as well as benefits in the agricultural and naval industries of the country after the conquest of the region.
The Russian proposals were in vain, and Alexei Vadatursky would never have accepted them. The tycoon died last Saturday after a precise attack by Russian troops that was supposed to be aimed at his room, leading to several rumors about his death. it was an act of revenge by the Kremlin. For example, on social networks, adviser to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that the businessman’s house is clearly a “target”.
The business and monopoly of the river ports is now in the hands of his son Andrei Vadatursky and his three grandchildren.
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