The United States has imposed sanctions on three Russian citizens and a Ukrainian MP, described as a “Russian agent.” According to the US Treasury Department, this is a sanction for interfering in the US election and a “clear warning to Moscow” about the November election of the US president, the AFP agency reported.
The sanctions affected Ukrainian MP Andrei Derkach, who, according to a statement from the US ministry, has been a Russian agent for ten years, is in contact with Russian intelligence services and has been involved in foreign interference in the US presidential election in November this year.
It was Derkač in May that published a compilation of recordings that were supposed to prove the alleged corruption of the Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden. In the summer, US President Donald Trump, who is running for re-election, posted a link to the recordings on Twitter, although the US intelligence service had previously condemned them as a Russian attempt to “blacken” Democrats, AFP reminded, adding that Derkach met late last year. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The Ministry of Finance also imposed sanctions on Anton Andreyev, Artyom Lifshit and Darya Aslanova of St. Petersburg, who, according to the Americans, are connected to a local “troll farm”, spreading false and demagogic messages over the Internet and trying to manipulate social networks.
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