We sat in Konstantinivna’s kitchen, where she had packets of food aid with stickers showing that they had been donated by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, who had once backed Yanukovych. He was born in 1966, his father was a miner and his mother a shop assistant. How he became the new John Hughes is another story, but one that sits well within the Donetsk tradition of being the hard city of Ukraine’s wild east. Now his Donbass Arena stadium, the home of Shakhtar Donetsk, was being used as a base to distribute his aid. In exchange perhaps for his help in feeding so many people, the rebels
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