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Alla Hurska: Ukraine’s sanctions against Medvedchuk — all about oil and coal

By Alla Hurska.

Published Feb. 25, 2021. Updated Feb. 25 at 9:11 am

Leader of the pro-Russian Opposition Platform - For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk (C) attends the parliament session on Oct. 31, 2019 in Kyiv.

Photo by UNIAN

On February 19, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) imposed sanctions on Ukrainian tycoon and politician Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife, Oksana Marchenko. Medvedchuk is a leader and people’s deputy of the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform–For Life, the largest opposition faction in the Ukrainian parliament.