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At today’s meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, they can discuss sanctions against companies associated with the People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform – For Life Viktor Medvedchuk, reports RBC-Ukraine.
On February 19 a meeting of the Security and National Defense Council will take place. According to RBC-Ukraine, it will start at 4.30 pm, and an hour later, NSDC secretary Aleksey Danilov will recount his results in a briefing.
A source close to the National Defense and Security Council told the agency that today the issue of imposing sanctions on the Prykarpatzakhidtrans company can be submitted for consideration.
This structure operates a section of the Samara – Western Direction pipeline. The businessmen are associated with the deputy of the “Platform of the opposition – For life” Viktor Medvedchuk (the politician himself denied any connection with this company).
According to the source, sanctions are also likely to be imposed on other Medvedchuk business chains.
Also among the possible issues – sanctions against the former member of the Party of Regions Vladimir Makeyenko, who until recently owned the TV channel “Pryamiy”. This was stated by the fifth president Petro Poroshenko, who announced the day before that he was buying the television channel (however, on the eve of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s press secretary, Yulia Mendel, said that at the NSDC meeting he did not plan impose sanctions against the Pryamiy television channel, and assured that freedom of expression in Ukraine is not in danger).
Radio Svoboda notes that the meeting may discuss the worsening of the situation in Donbass, including the intensification of snipers by armed groups, an increase in the number of bombings of Ukrainian positions, the problem of mining the territory, as a result of what which, in particular, on February 14, three soldiers died.
Zelensky announced a meeting of the NSDC a week ago, on February 12. His agenda was not officially published. Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of the President’s Office for anti-crisis communications, said this meeting “will provoke a nervous reaction from Ukraine’s political and business elite.”
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