According to the US Treasury, it was added to the list of those affected by punitive measures Taras Kozak and Oleh Volosin, members of the Verkhovna Rada, and Volodymyr Olegnik and Vladimir Sivkovich were former officials. According to the ministry, under the supervision of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), they all participated in Russia’s campaign to destabilize other sovereign states, including the United States.

Kozak, the owner of several TV news channels in Ukraine, and the US Treasury allegedly facilitated the FSB’s smear campaign against senior officials within the inner circle of Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian president.

In response to a journalist’s question about whether the United States plans to exclude Russia from the international payment network SWIFT based in Belgium, a US Treasury official said:

No choice was taken off the table.

There has been controversial news about it in recent days:

Recent developments in Russian-Ukrainian tensions:

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