The United States prepared sanctions against the immediate circle of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, including the leadership of the office of the head of state, after a verbal dispute in an oval office with American President Donald Trump and his team. Most likely, we are talking about financial restrictions.

About this, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, spoke on his YouTube channel "

In his statement about American sanctions against Ukrainian officials, the people's chosen one referred to information from a paid newsletter for readers of the LB publication. UA and on their sources.

Against whom exactly the United States planned to impose sanctions?

“(In the newsletter LB. ua) it is said that one of the methods of pressure on the Ukrainian authorities is this particular list of sanctions. It is in two types, in two sanctions lists. The first is 17 people, including the head of the presidential office Andrei Ermak, former presidential aid Sergey Shefir, film producer and business partner Ermak Artem Kolyubaev and Timur Mindic. And also quite close people, business partners of Zelensky. The last two are traditionally called the “wallets” of the president’s office and “looking” behind the construction industry and energy. As I understand it, we are talking about Kolyubaev and Mindic, ”Zheleznyak said.

According to him, another list of sanctions is much wider and has 279 people.

“In it, in addition to the mentioned defendants, allegedly gave almost all ministers, the leadership of the president’s office, key“ servants ”, Zelensky business partners and even his comrades-in-arms,” the people's deputy said.

He also provided his own comments on this information.

“First: are there any rumors about sanctions? Yes, and non -reasonable. And they were the most active just before Trump's performance in Congress. Just a few hours before, Zelensky made a post, which was somehow perceived as an apology to Trump for what happened in the oval office. A day earlier, several of my sources in financial circles said that there was an active analysis - what to do, well, how to pay salaries to certain deputies of the president’s office or ministers if they fall under US sanctions, ”Zheleznyak said.

What types of sanctions wanted to introduce the United States?

He noted that in terms of simplified, then US sanctions are of two types: some of them are financial, introduced by the treasury. In this context, the people's deputy drew attention to the Minister of Finance of the United States Scott Immort, who is engaged in an agreement on minerals.

“He actually acts on all financial things. Including there conditionally the first consequence will be the closure of accounts in banks. As an example, this is the same Dubinsky, regarding which there were just such sanctions, ”Zheleznyak said.

Another type of American sanctions is a wider list of restrictions from the US State Department.

“There is much more to move, relatives and the like is distributed,” the politician said.

“What type of sanctions are we talking about as a threat - we do not know. Something tells me that the first option is still more. And once again I will say that according to my information from several sources - yes, indeed, such a option of sanctions was prepared at least before this post (Zelensky - Ed.. ) "

“What I heard according to the list of people who really thought about sanctions, this is the same Kolyubaev, Shefir, Mindich, this is Mrs. Peschanskaya (sister of the head of the Accounts Chamber), mentioned in declarations as a certain holder of assets, including those associated with the“ 95 quarter ”. And a few more people, one way or another, are considered close to Zelensky or to the head of the presidential office. I honestly believe in this part.. And most importantly - that the president’s office also believe in it, ”Zheleznyak said.

What is the probability of imposing sanctions now?

The people's deputy claims that I have not heard anything about these sanctions for a long time.

“Are they talking about sanctions now and is there a high probability of their introduction? Here I haven't heard about them for a long time. And they, as the sanctions themselves, were not mentioned in my conversations or that it went on the sidelines, well, probably a month-after Mr. Trump’s performance in Congress, and after Ukraine said: “Well, okay, we are ready for some kind of ceasefire and negotiations on the end of the war”. Therefore, it seems to me that this information is a little outdated, ”the politician said.

“If some rumors come true about the new head of the US Embassy in Ukraine, then I think that a lot of information will still be provided to update these sanctions lists,” he added.

Recall that in early April, the Ukrainian diplomat, a member of the UKRain Facility Platform Coordination Council, Lana Mirror said that rumors about the possibility of applying sanctions against Ukrainian high -ranking officials from the United States existed even before a skirmish in the White House. Such conversations appeared even with the cadence Joe Biden.