The government expects to privatise the United Mining and Chemical Company (OGHC), the Centrenergo, and the Odesa Port Plant this year.

The talks took place in three European cities and while each side acknowledged that the other had taken care to listen, neither side appeared ready to give any ground on matters of fundamental importance to the other.

The recurring financial dispute could have political repercussions as well for the country’s pro-Western government as it grapples with the geopolitical realities of being dependent on Russia to keep its 2.5 million people warm.

With her start-up, Museumio, Kravchenko wanted “to explore how technology-led experiences could co-exist with exhibitions in their real-life forms rather than forming their own attractions.”