He Did Not Abandon His Country, Instead He Actively Helps All Ukrainian People

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“My Foundation is helping Ukrainians survive by providing water, food, medicines, and any help we can give here and now. SCM businesses are helping the army and territorial defense forces to defend our sovereignty, our freedom, and independence, and win the war."
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Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, was born in Donetsk but has not been back since Russia’s invasion in 2014. He is now focused on Mariupol, where a large number of civilians, as well as Ukrainian military soldiers remain. They are trapped behind the blockade of Russian troops since the early days of the war. Rinat has described terrible things about kids dying there from water shortages because people can only get water from melted snow...

 

Despite the fact that the businessman lost half of his fortune, he actively continues to focus all his efforts and resources on humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, as well as assistance to military and territorial defense. Also, Rinat Akhmetov stressed that he is not going to leave the homeland — “I am in Ukraine and I am not going to leave the country. I share the same feelings with all Ukrainians: I am sincerely waiting for the victory of Ukraine in this war. And we will start to rebuild the country to make it happier and more prosperous. On my end, I will spare no expense or effort to achieve this goal." 
 

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It is unbelievable that in the 21st century, the heart of Europe is witnessing the very real genocide, war, and atrocities that the Russian military allows itself. The billionaire was also asked whether he believes that Putin's military aspirations will stop with Ukraine, or if this is only the beginning. His answer was: “Putin is aiming at countries that have democracy, freedom, and independence. So all the free world's countries are potential targets. If Ukraine together with you fails to stop him, nobody knows who's next."

Unfortunately, no one can know Putin’s future actions, but one thing is certain the Ukrainians will stand firm to the end, they won't take a single step backwards and will continue to stand by each other, just like Rinat Akhmetov. Akhmetov lost part of his personal property and the home stadium of the team he owns, Shakhtar Donetsk, but he continues to help. Akhmetov said, "First of all, we are helping Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. I have already said this: we are helping and we will keep helping people. And we will be helping our army and the territorial defense to stop the military aggression against our country."

Source: Forbes (Ukraine’s Richest Man Says He’s Doing Everything He Can To Help His Country, And Sparing No Expense).