U.S. sanctions Ukrainian officials accused of helping Russia
Source: AP
By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department levied new sanctions Thursday against four Ukrainian officials, including two current members of parliament who administration officials say are part of a Russian influence effort to set the pretext for further invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions name parliament members Taras Kozak and Oleh Voloshyn and two former government officials. According to Treasury, all four have been intimately involved in disinformation efforts by Russia’s federal security service, known as the FSB.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the four men were at the heart of a Kremlin effort begun in 2020 “to degrade the ability of the Ukrainian state to independently function.”
The new sanctions were announced less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden said he thinks Moscow will newly invade Ukraine. He warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible restriction in access to the global banking system if it does.
President Joe Biden arrives to speaks at a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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(link) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ukrainian-oligarch-with-us-real-estate-empire-hit-with-sanctions-by-biden-administration/ar-BB1ehQ8I
His real estate investments in the US : (another link) https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/17/ukrainian-oligarch-midwestern-factory-town-dirty-money-american-heartland-michel-kleptocracy-515948
Here's his steel mill in Kentucky: (link) https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/12/14/ukraine-oligarchs-troubled-us-steel-plant-has-been-quietly-mining-bitcoin-report/
This guy is such bad news. Kolomoisky is the former governor of Ukraine who allowed Putin to come in and STEAL the Crimean peninsula. Then he escaped to Russia and Pootie rewarded him with $billions and made him an oligarch. How did he even get into the United States, let alone start throwing his dirty money around? Isn't this why we passed the Magnitsky Act 6 years ago? To keep these characters out of our country, to stop laundering their money and rewarding them for their crimes?
