U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Co-Chairman Jim Risch reacted to an investigation by journalists from the Schemes program that Russian military personnel are being paid for the war in Ukraine through Gazprombank, which escaped Western sanctions. He called on the US and the EU to “close such obvious loopholes,” Radio Liberty reports..

According to him, this is the most important evidence that the income from Russian gas does not just give Putin leverage, it literally finances his warriors in Ukraine..

On the eve of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba also commented on the investigation of " He urged to disconnect Russian Gazprombank from SWIFT.

A recently published investigation by journalists from Schemes (a Radio Liberty project) proves that Russian military personnel receive payments for the war in Ukraine through the non-sanctioned Gazprombank. Moreover, the investigators have identified numerous servicemen from the military units of the Russian Federation who take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine and who receive money for this in Gazprombank.. Thus, they proved the systematic nature of cooperation with this financial institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

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The investigation is becoming an international scandal, and the West will apparently have to decide whether to continue financing the killings of Ukrainians through the unsanctioned Gazprombank, where dozens of EU countries have opened accounts and convert euros into Russian rubles, as Putin wants..