Vitaliy Fomenko, 37, toiled as a construction worker in Germany while married dad Hennadiy Degtyar, 47, was a financial planner before they took up arms to fight back against Russia’s craven invasion of their homeland.

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Washington led an international campaign for tough economic penalties after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens of countries have punished Russian banks, businesses and oligarchs. They froze $300 billion of Russia’s assets, barred it from much of the global financial system and restricted what it could buy and sell.

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017.

However, Witkoff was previously named as Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, while retired General Keith Kellogg was initially tasked with leading the Ukraine-Russia case ... According to The New York Times, Witkoff’s mission to Moscow did ...

On Feb. 20, 2020, a federal judge sentenced Republican strategist and former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone to 40 months in prison for his conviction on seven criminal counts stemming from the Justice Department's Russia investigation.

While not legally binding, UN General Assembly resolutions carry political weight, reflecting global sentiment on the war.