Bloomberg learned about US plans to impose sanctions against Abramovich

The US found Abramovich's mediation in the negotiations between Moscow and Kiev ineffective and returned to discussing sanctions against him, writes BLOOMBERG. Earlier, the US Treasury postponed sanctionsagainst a businessman at the request of Zelensky,noted WSJ Roman Abramovich

In the U.S., senior officials are pushing again for sanctions against billionaire Roman Abramovich after his recent trip to Kyiv to resume talks failed to materialize, Bloomberg reported, citing two sources.

During his last trip to Kyiv, Abramovich did not meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but instead spoke with his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, three people with knowledge of the meeting told the agency.

According to Bloomberg, against this background, senior White House officials began to push for the imposition of sanctions, which were developed a few weeks ago.

RBC sent a request to a representative of Roman Abramovich.

Fortune learned about Abramovich's visit to Kyiv to revive negotiations Politics

In mid-April, the American magazine Fortune, citing informed sources, wrote that Abramovich visited Kyiv to discuss the possibility of resuming Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, which had stalled.

Nevertheless, the representative of the businessman then denied these data. “Mr. Abramovich is not in Kyiv and has not been there recently,” he told RBC.

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Earlier, The Wall Street Journal wrote that the administration of US President Joe Biden was preparing to impose sanctions against Abramovich along with the UK and the EU, but the US National Security Council instructed the Treasury to refrain from imposing sanctions on him.

According to the publication, this happened after Zelensky called Biden and advised him to wait with a decision on sanctions, since Abramovich could become an intermediary in negotiations on a settlement between Moscow and Kyiv.

Putin called the results of the negotiations a condition for a meeting with Zelensky Politics

On March 31, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the HEAD of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the businessman is an "extremely effective" mediator during the negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations.

“He partially moderates the process from the point of view, so that there is no misunderstanding “at the entrance”. That is, when a side declares something, and the other side misunderstood it, from the point of view of the logistics of the negotiation process," Podolyak explained.

The Kremlin pointed out that the businessman is not an official member of the Russian delegation, but he was "involved in ensuring certain contacts" between the parties.

Abramovich was noticed on March 29 at the Dolmabahce Palace right before the start of negotiations between delegations in Istanbul. He talked with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, next to them was Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. The latter noted that the businessman "is making sincere efforts" to help resolve the situation in Ukraine.

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On April 22, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are progressing "slowly, slowly." Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia had lost confidence in the Ukrainian negotiators, as Kyiv was changing its position and trying to "drag out the negotiation process."

Podolyak, in turn, said that the process became more complicated after the events in Bucha, Mariupol, Volnovakha and the Kyiv region. “The emotional background in which the negotiations are taking place today gives grounds for a slightly different look at the situation as a whole,” he said.