Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was excluded from sanctions the United States after Ukraine's president claimed the billionaire soccer team owner may be an important go-between during peace negotiations.
U.S. Treasury Department officials had drafted a set of sanctions to punish Russia and Vladimir Putin, as well as multiple oligarchs tied to him following Moscow's unprovoked attack on Kyiv, but was told by the White House's National Security Council to exclude Abramovich, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the phone call between the council and Treasury.
Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, declined to provide a readout of the conversation between Biden and Zelensky, while Treasury declined to comment altogether. Abramovich, who holds citizenship in Israel and Portugal, has denied having close ties to Putin despite a recently aired BBC documentary that claimed he was the Russian leader's "money man."
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