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Medvedchuk appeared in the case of interference in US elections

Ukrainian politician and oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, who is the godfather of Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared in an American investigation into Russian interference in the US presidential election due to links with Paul Manafort

Source: The New York Times

Details: Accused of treason and captured in Ukraine after escaping from house arrest, Medvedchuk emerged in a US publication as "an influential figure in Ukraine with potential knowledge of Russian interference in the United States elections, although for years he strongly denied this ".

Medvedchuk is a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin and was also a client of Republican political consultant Paul Manafort.

The New York Times notes that in Ukraine, Medvedchuk is accused of buying coal from "pro-Russian separatists" and treason, but "more broadly, he is associated with a whirlwind of financial and political intrigues around Moscow's operations to influence politics in foreign countries" .

Medvedchuk is linked to Russian interference in US elections due to ties to Manafort. He did not play a major role in the special counsel's report or in the two federal trials of Manafort.

Manafort worked for ten years as a consultant for Ukrainian politicians committed to Russia, including Medvedchuk's party, before becoming head of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Medvedchuk said in 2017 that Manafort advised the party on its poll-based election strategy, attended a party conference ahead of parliamentary elections, and allegedly approved the party's pro-Russian policies for elections in southern and eastern Ukraine.

At the time, Medvedchuk said that Manafort supported the need to adhere to positions of "economic integration with Russia" in order to get votes in Russian-speaking regions.

Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign in August 2016 after Ukrainian authorities released black-book entries from the Party of Regions showing that the American consultant received $12.7 million from pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine in an illegal scheme.

In 2017, an investigation into Russian interference began in the United States - and Medvedchuk's name emerged as one of several pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians close to both Manafort and Putin.

Reuters reported that year that the FBI and investigators were investigating 18 phone calls and text messages between people close to Trump and people associated with Putin, including Medvedchuk.

Medvedchuk denied wrongdoing.

The publication notes that if Medvedchuk is extradited to Russia for the return of Ukrainian prisoners, it is not known whether he will testify and whether the investigation will be interested in his role in American politics, or the investigators will focus on his role in Ukrainian politics.

Background:

Since May 2021, Medvedchuk has been under house arrest on suspicion of treason and attempted plunder of national resources (oil and gas) in the occupied Crimea, since October also on suspicion of treason and facilitating the activities of a terrorist organization through coal purchase schemes in ORDLO.

5 days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko left for Belarus, then posted a video from Moscow. On February 21, property was taken out of Medvedchuk's mansion in Kyiv. On February 27, it became known that Medvedchuk had escaped from house arrest.

The search for the fugitive deputy was carried out by a special group of the Security Service together with prosecutors. The Office of the Prosecutor General assured that Medvedchuk had not fled abroad.

On March 18, 2022, the court allowed Medvedchuk to be arrested in absentia.

On April 12, it became known about the detention in Ukraine of Viktor Medvedchuk, who escaped from house arrest in February and tried to leave Ukraine in April. First, a photograph of Medvedchuk in military uniform and handcuffed appeared on the telegram channel of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Then the details of the SBU special operation appeared.

Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk for Ukrainian citizens who are held captive by the Russian military, and Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to consider such a possibility.

US ready to take action against China for undermining sanctions against Russia

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned of the economic and financial consequences for China and other countries that try to help Russia circumvent sanctions.

This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to the words of the minister.

She noted that the United States is ready to take action if countries close to the aggressor try to blow up a large-scale package of sanctions imposed by Western allies.

In her speech, the official singled out China and other countries that avoid decision-making "and perhaps see an opportunity to benefit by maintaining their relationship with Russia and filling the void left by others."

"The coalition of countries imposing sanctions will not be indifferent to actions that undermine them," Yellen said. "China cannot expect the international community to respect its calls for the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity in the future if it does not respect those principles now, when it matters," she warned.

"The attitude of the world towards China and its further economic integration may be affected by China's reaction to our call for decisive action against Russia."

Reminder:

The United States for the first time introduced secondary sanctions against companies that are not registered in the Russian Federation, but can help the aggressor evade sanctions.

The United States is ready to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs

The United States of America is ready to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to defend itself against Russia, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on ABC News.

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“We are going to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to fight back against the Russians and prevent them from taking over the new cities and towns where they are committing these crimes,” Sullivan said.

On April 7, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that Kyiv expects air defense systems, long-range artillery, tanks and armored vehicles, anti-ship missiles, and reconnaissance and strike drones from the West.

Sullivan also said during an interview with ABC that the West is effectively helping Ukraine on another front - the economic one.

“If you look at independent forecasts for the Russian economy, they suggest a fall of somewhere between 10-15% this year. It is likely that it will cease to be one of the largest economies in the world due to the economic pressure that we put on it,” – he declared.

The United States handed over to Ukraine a plan for the Russian offensive on Kyiv

Timely notification of the authorities in Kyiv helped to repel the Russian attack on the capital of Ukraine in the first days of the war. The CIA director told Zelensky about the Kremlin's plans back in mid-January, The Wall Street Journal reported.

US intelligence handed over to the leadership of Ukraine plans for a Russian offensive against Kyiv, which may have played a key role in repelling aggression in the early days of the war, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday, April 1, citing informed sources.

According to the publication, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, secretly visited Kyiv in mid-January, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and told him about Moscow's plans. Then, WSJ notes, US intelligence already knew that Russian troops would deliver the main blow from the territory of Belarus through the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Intelligence also knew about Moscow's plans to seize the airfield in Gostomel near Kiev in order to use it as a springboard.

This airfield was indeed captured on the first day of the Russian invasion on February 24 by helicopter landings, and Russian troops began to attack Kyiv from the north. However, thanks to the information received from the CIA, the Ukrainian military managed to organize defense on the Irpin River and did not let the enemy into Kyiv. This made it possible to stabilize the front.

Putin's desire to subjugate Ukraine

A few days ago, Russian troops began to leave the territory of the Kiev region. According to reports, Russia is moving these units to the Donbass as reinforcements. On April 2, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the complete liberation of the Kiev region.

The WSJ article suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin's goal was to subjugate Ukraine throughout his 20 years in office. Last November, preparations for an armed invasion entered its final phase. At the same time, the United States began to warn Moscow about the consequences in the form of tough sanctions.

The material also reports on how the United States discussed preparations for a possible war in Ukraine with Western allies. According to the WSJ interlocutors, not all allies believed the US intelligence that Putin was really planning an invasion.

The US Department of Commerce in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine imposes export restrictions against 120 organizations from Russia and Belarus.

The list includes organizations associated with the defense, aerospace and maritime sectors. Among them: the All-Russian Research Institute of Optical and Physical Measurements, Moselectronproekt, the Zvezda shipbuilding plant, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Zhukovsky and others. In addition, the list includes the division of the KGB of Belarus "Alfa", the Department of Internal Affairs of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee and the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.

According to the document, these structures "acted contrary to the interests of national security or the foreign policy of the United States." Earlier, the US authorities announced that the organizations included in the sanctions list will not be able to receive advanced American technologies without a license, which in most cases will be denied.

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Чому Г'ю Джекман готовий платити за мовчання ексдружини

Як стало відомо, Г'ю Джекман готовий платити за мовчання ексдружини. Йдеться про значну суму, яку зірка "Логана" збирається передати Деборрі-Лі Фернесс за нерозголошення подробиць їхнього особистого життя. І, звичайно ж, це не може не насторожити навіть вірних шанувальників австралійця. Подробиці, як завжди, в найближчі пару хвилин.

"Вони прийняли свою долю"

15 вересня 2023 року публіку шокувала неприємна звістка. Адже, як з'ясувалося, Г'ю Джекман і Деборра-Лі Фернесс заявили про своє рішення розлучитися після 27 років шлюбу. Цікаво, що їхнє розставання передрікали багато таблоїдів і навіть прості користувачі Мережі. Мовляв, не може бути щастя між тими, у кого така величезна різниця у віці.

Цікаво, що про зраду з боку одного з акторів не йдеться. Ба більше, подружжя, за офіційними заявами, розлучилося на дружній ноті. Так, у своєму зверненні до фанатів знаменитості зізналися, що й надалі збираються разом піклуватися про сина та доньку. "Ми вирішили розлучитися, щоб продовжити своє індивідуальне зростання".

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Г'ю Джекман готовий платити за мовчання ексдружини

Тепер же з'ясувалося, що Г'ю Джекман готовий платити за мовчання ексдружини про їхнє життя в шлюбі. Так, наприклад, зірка голлівудських блокбастерів побажав, щоб розлучення з Деборрою-Лі Фернесс супроводжувалося договором про нерозголошення біографічних таємниць. Але про яку ж суму йдеться, запитаєш ти.

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Однак користувачі Мережі вважають, що тут усе не так чисто. Та й сума для мовчання досить значна. "Зачекайте, наш улюблений Росомаха не такий вже й святий, виходить?", "Це що ж відбувалося в їхньому шлюбі, що Г'ю не проти розпрощатися з такою значною сумою?", "Сподіваюся, Деборра не клюне на це й повідає нам щось цікаве".

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