Washington appears all set to use the ongoing feud between the Ukrainian tycoons to snap up the pipelines pumping Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, French mediaportal AgoraVox reported Wednesday.
"The conflict between [President] Petro Poroshenko and [billionaire ex-Dnepropetrovsk governor] Ihor Kolomoyskyi we now observe is just the initial stage of this operation,” the online edition notes, adding that if the US has its way it would effectively control natural gas deliveries to Europe thus forcing its European allies to “stay the course”.
“The rivalry between President Poroshenko and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi is more than just an economic one, it’s also about who is going to run Ukraine. Here Kolomoyskyi has an edge wielding serious media, financial and even military power.Poroshenko is fully aware of this, but he still goes for it feeling the support of his American sponsors,” AgoraVox wrote.
