Ukraine Imposes Sanctions on 71 Individuals Linked to Pro-Russian Activities

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council recently imposed new sanctions on 71 individuals and 18 organizations involved in pro-Russian activities. The list includes former MPs from Odesa and Kherson regions who have demonstrated loyalty to Russian policy or acted to the detriment of national interests at various times.

This is stated in an infographic by the Chesno movement.

From Odesa region, the sanctions were imposed on Tetiana Plachkova, who used to be a member of the OPFL political party banned in Ukraine and later resigned her parliamentary mandate. She is from Krynychne, Odesa region. She graduated from a school in Odesa and the National University "Odesa Law Academy".

According to the Chesno movement, in March 2020, she was a member of the so-called OPFL "delegation" to Moscow, where she met with State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, his deputy Alexei Gordeev, and other Russian MPs.

The restrictions also affected Artem Dmytruk from Odesa. In 2019, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party.

Since then, he has been plagued by scandals: Dmytruk started a fight near the parliament, in Odesa City Hall, and starred in Anatoliy Shariy's propaganda film about the events in Odesa in 2014. He is a subdeacon of the UOC-MP and joined those who want to preserve the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.

In November 2021, Dmytruk was expelled from the Servant of the People faction. During the full-scale war, Dmytruk, along with MP Oleksandr Kunytskyi, beat a man in the center of Kyiv.

Then the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against the MPs, and the victim turned out to be a military man. It was this episode that became the basis for the criminal case that led to Dmytruk's detention.

On August 23, 2024, the politician illegally crossed the border towards Moldova near the Pavlivka checkpoint.

The Prosecutor General's Office intended to serve Dmytruk himself with a notice of suspicion for the attacks on a law enforcement officer and a soldier, and they planned to detain him. In the end, the suspicion was announced in absentia on August 25.

Former MP from the Servant of the People party, Oleksiy Kovalev, was included in the list from Kherson region. In 2022, during the war, he remained in the temporarily occupied Kherson region and openly collaborated with the Russian invaders.

According to Chesno, he took part in meetings with Kremlin representatives, stated that "Russia is here forever," and took a position in the occupation administration as "Deputy Head of the Kherson Oblast Government."

He was involved in the supply of food to Crimea, exported fuel for the needs of the Russian army, and provided premises to the occupiers.

The party expelled him from its faction, and the State Bureau of Investigation announced suspicion of treason and put him on the wanted list. Kovalev was killed on August 28, 2022, in Hola Prystan. He was found shot dead in his own home. His partner also died.

He had already been the subject of an assassination attempt - a car bomb. After his death, his property worth more than UAH 3 million was transferred to the ARMA.

Ірина Глухова