Announced a few days ago as a sensational meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine ended with really serious news. The NSDC imposed sanctions against one of the leaders of the parliamentary faction of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, a close friend of Russian President Viktor Medvedchuk, his wife Oksana Marchenko, and a number of persons believed to be associated with Medvedchuk's business.

Previous NSDC sanctions were directed against another MP from the PLO - Taras Kozak, the nominal owner of the television holding, which everyone in Ukraine calls " As a result, three TV channels, on which Medvedchuk relied in his political activities and which were a real propaganda mouthpiece for both his party and the Kremlin, disappeared from Ukrainian television air.. But then these sanctions did not directly concern Medvedchuk, since he was neither the formal owner of the TV channels, nor the owner of the aircraft fleet of "

But the new sanctions directly concern the business of Medvedchuk and his wife, and the NSDC secretary Alexei Danilov speaks of supporting terrorists. “14 kilometers from our border, on the territory of the Russian Federation, there is one of the oil refineries, which is owned by Medvedchuk together with his wife and Kozak, also together with his wife. And supplies of oil materials are carried out to the territory of terrorists who kill our fighters, "

Even after the publication of the first sanctions against Kozak and " But then it was possible to talk not about Medvedchuk himself, but about his information resource. Now the entire business empire of the main lobbyist of Russian interests in Ukraine is under attack..

Medvedchuk will not find much support in the Ukrainian elite in his attempts to defend himself. They talk about his serious conflict with the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov - the entrepreneur in the recent presidential and parliamentary elections chose not to support the PLO, but another political force, which, however, did not achieve real success. In his own party, Medvedchuk, the former head of the presidential administration Leonid Kuchma, has a conflict with the former head of the presidential administration Viktor Yanukovych Sergei Lyovochkin, the classic “gray eminence” of Ukrainian politics. But Medvedchuk has a defender outside of Ukraine. This is Putin.

And now the main question of what will happen after the decision on sanctions is how Putin will intercede for his longtime supporter and godfather. After all, not to react is to question all the Kremlin's " And not only in Ukraine. Obviously, it is no coincidence that the first issue of the NSDC meeting, at which the introduction of new sanctions was considered, was still a discussion of the situation in Donbass, where the situation began to escalate immediately after Zelensky's previous sanctions decree.

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