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The co-owner of Kyivstar's bank helps raise money for the Russian company Rostelecom, — journalist
Andrey Kosogov’s Alfa-Bank, which together with Fridman and Aven remains an indirect co-owner of Kyivstar, is attracting investor money for Rostelecom through the sale of digital debt assets, writes journalist Oleksandr Chernenko. Rostelecom services the Russian Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the National Guard, and other Kremlin security agencies.
Thus, the bank of the co-owner of the Ukrainian strategic operator is helping to finance the Russian operator that provides communications to the aggressor’s army and security services. “And so a wondrous miracle happens. In one hand we have Russian communications, in the other — Ukrainian. Here’s Rostelecom, here’s Kyivstar. The main thing is not to mix them up. But for some reason I think they do mix them up, and how they mix them up,”
Rostelecom is only one episode of Alfa’s servicing of the Russian military machine. According to military intelligence, Alfa-Bank lent to manufacturers of ammunition, rocket engines, self-propelled howitzers, and equipment for combat aircraft and helicopters. AlfaStrakhovanie insured National Guard military transport, defense enterprises, and Putin’s security vehicles. At the same time, Kyivstar with Russian beneficiaries calls itself a partner of the Ukrainian state and offers it communications and cyber protection. Chernenko urged the authorities to begin the process of nationalizing the Russian stake or to use another lawful mechanism to remove Russian beneficiaries from the strategic operator — with a concrete plan and deadlines.
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