Zelenskiy promises not to return PrivatBank to its former owners. In a televised press marathon on Thursday, the president vowed to defend the nation’s interests. Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky is trying to wrestle back control of PrivatBank through a lawsuit filed in the Kyiv Commercial Court. The bank was nationalized in Dec. 2016, after its ownership group, led by Kolomoisky, put the bank $5.5 billion in the red. PrivatBank, the country’s biggest bank,posted a record $1.1 billion profit in the first nine months of 2019.