A period of tension between Rinat Akhmetov and Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeared to reach a boiling point just weeks ago, after Ukraine’s leader slammed its billionaire oligarchs for fleeing ahead of an imminent Russian invasion.
Now, in the midst of war, Ukraine’s richest person says he’s back in the country and that the two are on the same team, setting aside the controversies that have surrounded him for decades.