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On February 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky implemented a Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council recommendation to sanction parliamentary deputy Taras Kozak. Kozak, a member of Ukraine’s pro-Russian Opposition Platform For Life party (OPZZh), is closely allied with oligarch and fellow OPZZh deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, who is a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The decision to sanction Kozak was taken mainly due to the discovery that he has financial ties to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics
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