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The Kyiv shopping mall Ocean Plaza, which is associated with a friend of the Russian dictator Putin - businessman Arkady Rotenberg, was recently finally closed.
According to political analyst Oleksandr Kochetkov, this should have been done before the full-scale Russia's invasion, UNN reports.
"This (Rotenberg's connection with the Kyiv shopping mall) was known from the 2014, and it took 8 years of such a hybrid war and 5 months of hot war for them to finally leave. Why did they leave? Because it is not open, you have to pay rent, but you do not earn money because it is closed. If it hadn't been closed, they probably wouldn't have left by now," he believes.
Ocean Plaza was almost closed right after the full-scale Russia's invasion on February 24, except for a few shops and supermarkets on the ground floor. Now the mall is completely closed.
