Volodymyr Zelensky requires new sanctions against seventy-six people, including his former advisor Oleksiy Arestovych
THE Kyiv independent explains thatsince then he has “Positioned as a criticism of the Ukrainian government and suggested that he could have political ambitions, which has aroused strong criticism from Ukrainian officials and civil society groups, some of whom accuse him of disseminating stories that take up the discourses of the Kremlin”.
MEDUZA recallfor its part, that in April Oleksiy Arestovych had “Criticized the Ukrainian authorities for having used sanctions […]believing that they had become a tool to repress political opponents ”. The former adviser to the Ukrainian presidency resumed this line of attack, after the announcement of the sanctions. “The sanctions imposed by the Zelensky regime against Petro Poroshenko and I are an illegal mechanism aimed at excluding political competitors from future elections. […] Zelensky uses them as an extrajudicial retaliation tool aimed at its political and commercial rivals. This constitutes a violation of fundamental human rights ”he wrote on the social network X.