The leaders and MPs of the Ukrainian party Opposition Bloc have been added to the sanctions list, against whom special economic measures have been introduced by Russian governmental resolution No. 1656 dated December 25, 2018.
The sanctions have in particular been imposed on Chairman of the Opposition Bloc party Borys Kolesnykov, MP Vadim Novinsky, and Oleksandr Vilkul, who may be nominated as a presidential candidate from the party. Meanwhile, other members of the faction, who did not support, as Interfax reported, the creation of the Opposition Platform – For Life group on the basis of the faction, were added to the sanctions list.
Vitaliy Khomutynnyk, an MP and the leader of the deputy group Revival, was also added to the sanctions list.
In addition, Yevhen Murayev, an MP and the leader of the Ours party, was included in the sanctions list.
The Russian government added to the sanctions list MPs from the factions Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People’s Front, Samopomich, Batkivschyna, including Oleksandr Abdulin, Ruslan Demchak, Mykola Kniazhytskiy, Heorhiy Lohvynsky, Tetiana Ostrykova, Viktor Pynzenyk, Olena Shkrum and others.
In particular, chief of the Ukrainian State Border Service Petro Tsyhykal is a state official added to the sanctions list.
The Russian sanctions list also included Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov and Odesa businessman Volodymyr Halanternyk.
According to Odesa media reports, Halanternyk is controlling a large part of the Pryvoz market, and a group of the shopping malls City Center, a shopping mall in Arkadia and a number of other real estate units in the city. He is also believed to be linked to the Odesa TV channels A1, GTV, and the 1st City Channel Odesa.
According to the government’s decree published on the government’s website on Tuesday evening, along with 245 individuals added to the list of Ukrainian sanctioned individuals, seven companies were added to the sanctions list of legal entities, including Ukrainian defense enterprises (the Ukroboronprom Concern and Ukrspecexport state company), the Ukrainian State Export-Import Bank, Centrenergo, one of the largest Ukrainian power-generating companies, the TAS Insurance Group, and several transport logistic organizations (the Vertical forwarding company, the First Logistic Company).
The TAS Insurance Group is owned by Serhiy Tigipko, the First Logistic Company by Maksym Shkyl and the Vertical forwarding company by Roman Vasylevskiy.
As to the First Logistic Company, the Russian government’s resolution cited the address of its Kyiv office provided at its website, whereas the legal address of the company is the town of Berezhany in Lviv region.
As to the Vertical forwarding company, according to the state register the company has not changed its legal address following the renaming of the Moskovsky Avenue into the Stepan Bandera Avenue, but this avenue has already been named as the Bandera Avenue in the published document.
All of the 68 companies, which were initially included in the sanctions list by the Russian governmental resolution dated November 1, 2018, were left on the extended sanctions list.
