“The 16th package of European sanctions against Russia will include several dozen new individuals and legal entities, including the son of the former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine of the Kuchma Leonid Derkach presidency, exNDPP Andriy Derkach.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
The 16th package of European sanctions against Russia will include several dozen new individuals and legal entities, including the son of the former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine of the Kuchma Leonid Derkach presidency, exNDPP Andriy Derkach.
Source: The project of the document at the disposal of Radio Liberty, “European Truth”
Details: As it is noted, the list includes two persons known in Ukraine. In particular, it is about Andrei Derkach, a 57-year-old son of the former SBU chairman of the Presidency of Kuchma Leonid Derkach.
Since 1998, Derkach has been almost continuous (except in 2006-2007) as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions and then as non-factional. It has become known for its information operations aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s European integration and relations with the United States.
In January 2023, the man was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship, and is now a senator from the Russian Astrakhan region, a member of the Committee of Security and Defense of the Council of the Federation of Russia.
In Ukraine, it is wanted and is a person involved in special court proceedings.
Since September 2020, US sanctions have been imposed on his attempts to influence the presidential election in 2020. In January 2021, the US Treasury imposed repeated sanctions on Derkach.
The second among the well -known people in Ukraine is the once youngest Grasmaster in the world, a native of Simferopol Sergey Karyakin.
In 2009, he changed his sports citizenship to Russian, and since 2014 he publicly called for an aggressive war, justified and recognized Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.
Also, according to journalists, in the new package of sanctions will be expanded, including at the expense of China and North Korea, the number of persons and organizations that will be subject to sanctions due to a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
Additional measures will be implemented against Russian media representatives involved in a misinformation campaign coordinated by the Russian authorities.
That preceded: The media contained the details that the 16th package of sanctions will be directed to Russian aluminum, agricultural products, “shadow fleet” of tankers, liquefied gas and banking sphere.
At the same time, it became known that the European Union will not make a full ban on the purchase of Russian liquefied natural gas in a new package of sanctions.