Things have not been going according to plan for Mohammad Zahoor, one of Ukraine's most prominent foreign entrepreneurs. In Luhansk, the country's eastern-most region, a once-lucrative processing plant supplying coal for metals and mining group Rio Tinto lies mothballed in rebel-held territory. Zahoor's renovation of a landmark hotel in the centre of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, has ground to a halt, with the latest tranche of funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uncertain.
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