Oleksandr Hrytsenko, chairman of Ukreximbank, was grabbed off a Kyiv sidewalk Saturday morning and bundled into a black van in what his wife thought was a kidnapping.

Oleksandr Hrytsenko, chairman of Ukreximbank, was grabbed off a Kyiv sidewalk Saturday morning and bundled into a black van in what his wife thought was a kidnapping. It later turned out that it was an arrest by Security Service agents fulfilling a Prosecutor General’s warrant on charges of creating a criminal organization, embezzlement, and money laundering. It is unclear why SBU agents used a Hollywood method to arrest the chairman of one of the nation’s top three state-owned banks. Timothy Ash writes from London: “Hrytsenko was very close to Poroshenko…someone in the Zelenskiy administration just declared war on former President Poroshenko. The gloves are now off.”