In the decades that Ukraine has lurched through its chaotic post-Soviet years, Mykhaylo Veselskyy has quietly—and apparently legitimately—built two successful multi-million-dollar businesses. By the time he was 34, his first enterprise had become one of Ukraine’s biggest sunflower-oil producers. He sold the venture for a more-than-tidy profit and plowed the proceeds into a retail grocery chain. He steered that company, Evrotek, through the 2008 financial crisis and has added real estate to the portfolio.
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Two men walk along the main road through the village of Nikishino, Donetsk oblast, eastern Ukraine, on April 21, 2015.
