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Two stories from the days before 17 December 2023
Summary
A grenade attack at a village council in Zakarpattia and a US sanctions sentencing marked the days leading up to 17 December 2023.
What had happened in the days before 17 December 2023? Two reports from that period stood out, one local and violent, the other a US court outcome tied to Russia sanctions.
On 15 December 2023, a councillor threw grenades during a session of the village council in Kerets'ke. One person was killed and 26 were wounded, as reported at the time. The attacker was also seriously injured.
A day earlier, on 14 December 2023, Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent, was sentenced to more than four years in prison. He had violated US sanctions on Russia, including by laundering money for the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The two stories were unconnected, and the reports do not link them. Together they show the range of news in the region and beyond in the days just before 17 December 2023: a deadly attack inside a local government meeting, and a court ruling on sanctions-related crimes.
