More than 20 years ago, my friends and I established an auditing company in Donetsk. This once rich industrial region in the east of Ukraine gave us rapid growth and confidence in our abilities. Despite almost complete loss of business in 2014 after the occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk by Russia, we, after moving our team to Kyiv, relaunched the firm and, in five years, reached the 7th position among international auditing and consulting companies in Ukraine as a Kreston Global member.