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Anti-crisis adviser to the head of the President’s Office, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that the Servant of the People faction, and not Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, should respond to the introduction of US sanctions against Oleksandr Dubinsky, a member of the Servant of the People party. . The faction stated that “it would be correct if Dubinsky himself comments on such personal events.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Office of the President will not react to the imposition of US sanctions against Oleksandr Dubinsky, a member of the Servant of the People party. On January 12, Radio Svoboda was informed of this by Mikhail Podolyak, an anti-crisis adviser to the head of the President’s Office.
“Why should the president react to this, and not the faction leadership, for example? Dubinsky is a deputy. And the main reaction is the prerogative of the body of deputies and, in the first place, the Servant of the People faction. That is correct, “Podolyak said.
Earlier, the deputy head of the Servants of the People faction, Yevgenia Kravchuk, said that Dubinsky’s steps and statements often did not match the faction’s position. According to Kravchuk, “it would be correct for Dubinsky himself to comment on such personal events.”
MPs from the faction have not yet discussed adding Dubinsky to the sanctions list, he said.
On January 11, the United States placed 11 individuals and organizations on the sanctions list in Ukraine. Seven citizens of Ukraine fell under the sanctions. In addition to Dubinsky, these are, in particular, the former prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine Konstantin Kulik, a fugitive businessman, the former People’s MP Oleksandr Onishchenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat and political scientist Andrei Telizhenko.
According to the US Treasury Department, these individuals are associated with Ukraine’s People’s Deputy Andriy Derkach, against whom the United States imposed sanctions in September 2020 “for attempting to influence the 2020 US presidential elections.” Along with Derkach, sanctions were imposed on three other Russians: Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreev and Daria Aslanova, employees of the Russian Internet Research Agency (better known as the “Troll Factory”).
Dubinsky himself denies that, together with Derkach, he tried to influence the 2020 US presidential election.
In May, June, July and September, Derkach published four installments of recordings of alleged telephone conversations by the fifth Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which he conducted in 2015-2016 with various politicians. In particular, alleged recordings of conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and now-elected US President Joe Biden were released.
In the recordings, people with voices similar to Poroshenko and Biden, in particular, discussed the resignation of then-Attorney General Viktor Shokin and Kiev’s receipt of US loan guarantees in the amount of $ 1 billion. Derkach believes that Biden could have put pressure on the Ukrainian leadership.
In the United States, on November 3, 2020, the main vote in the presidential elections took place. More than 10 candidates ran for the job, the main competitors were the Republican, the incumbent of the White House Donald Trump and the Democrat Joe Biden.
On January 7, the United States Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. He received 306 electoral votes, Trump – 232. The inauguration of the new president of the United States is scheduled for January 20.
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