HDressed in a Ukrainian army uniform, disheveled, handcuffed and exhibited like a prize of war, Viktor Medvedchuk looks gray. The flamboyant pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch, close to Vladimir Putin, energy and media magnate, was captured on April 12 after a “special operation” carried out by the Ukrainian secret service, the SBU, revealed by the President Zelensky. He had been on the run since February 27. He had left kyiv only three days after the outbreak of Russian aggression in Ukraine, when he had been under house arrest for a year, with a ban on leaving the territory. At the time of his arrest, he was trying to reach Transnistria, a separatist region of Moldova on a Russian infusion, the Ukrainian authorities said…
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