When Andriy Kobolyev took over the reins of Ukraine’s gigantic national energy company Naftogaz in March 2014, the situation could hardly have been more desperate. His predecessor as Naftogaz CEO was implicated in a massive fraud, the Ukrainian president had fled to Moscow, and a Russian invasion was underway.
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Then-Chief executive of Ukrainian state-owned gas firm Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev is pictured during an AFP interview in Budapest on June 18, 2014.
