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Speaking about the US sanctions against Kolomoisky and the oligarchy in Ukraine, Zelensky mentioned the names of the richest people in the country: Medvedchuk, who fell under the restrictions of the NSDC, Poroshenko, businessmen Viktor Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, as well as Dmitry. Firtash.
“The surnames make no difference here: they are Medvedchuk, Kolomoisky, Poroshenko, Akhmetov, Pinchuk, Firtash or anyone else. One thing is important: are you prepared to work legally and transparently or do you want to continue creating monopolies, controlling the media, influencing MPs and other public officials? The first is compatible. The second is ending, “Zelensky said.
On February 2, the President of Ukraine put into effect the decision of the Security and National Defense Council on the application of sanctions against the People’s Deputy of PLOZH Taras Kozak and his television channels. The sanctions provide for the revocation of the licenses of 112 Ukraine, ZIK and NewsOne, they are ordered to stop broadcasting, all legal activities of media companies are terminated for a period of five years. The providers immediately began blocking TV channels, made a joint statement on “political retaliation” and vowed to fight “for their right to broadcast for Ukrainians.”
Employees of the 112 Ukraine TV channels, ZIK, NewsOne, which fell under the sanctions of the NSDC, who are associated with the People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform – For Life Viktor Medvedchuk, aired on February 26 on the Pershy Nezalezhniy channel. On February 25, the owner of the Lviv canal changed, it became OOO Mediaholding Novosti, which was created by 100 employees of the blocked channels.
An hour later, the channel disconnected from satellite transmission, and then on cable networks, it continued to broadcast on the Internet. On the air and on the television channel’s social networks, it was reported that satellite providers and operators received a request from the SBU not to provide any service.
February 19, 2021 National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to impose sanctions against 19 legal entities and eight persons: five citizens of Russia (according to media reports, this Medvedchuk family asset managers) and three Ukrainians: Medvedchuk, his wife Oksana Marchenko and Natalia Lavrenyuk, whom the media called wife in fact Cossack.
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