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The head of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction, Arseniy Yatseniuk, has said that he never heard from US officials anything about possible introduction of a ban on entry to the US for the head of the Svoboda parliamentary faction, Oleh Tiahnybok, and Svoboda MP Ihor Miroshnychenko.

“I held a lot of meetings and at many of them I was asked about ideology of the oppositional parties, including the Svoboda Party. But this issue was not raised during any of the meetings,” Yatseniuk told a press briefing at the Boryspil Airport following his working visit to the US  when asked whether the US officials discussed with him possible introduction of a ban on entry to the US for Tiahnybok and Miroshnychenko.