Ukrainian singer Vinnyk: $750,000 was extorted to remove his file from “Myrotvorets”

Ukrainian singer Oleh Vinnyk has stated that moderators of the “Myrotvorets” website demanded $750,000 to remove his personal data from the database.

He spoke about this in an interview with the YouTube channel “Agent Provocateur.”

Vinnyk was added to the “Myrotvorets” database back in 2019 — with the description “for committing deliberate acts against the national security of Ukraine, peace, the security of humanity and the international order, as well as other violations.” The reason was his participation in the “Peace to All” event together with Russian artists.

“At the start of the war, I remember, they simply told me — I won’t say who told me — they named a sum of $750,000 to get out of ‘Myrotvorets,'” the singer said.

According to him, he responded to this offer with a refusal, expressed in rather unambiguous terms:

“You can roll up this ‘Myrotvorets’ into a pipe and shove it in deep.”

Vinnyk also stressed that “Myrotvorets” is not a state resource, and made clear that he does not attach any particular significance to being in its database.

“This is not a state operation. Well, of course, it’s some kind of private thing, this list in general. So go ahead and live by this list, and chew on whatever’s in it, and enjoy whoever’s on it… Today I couldn’t care less about it, but it turns out it’s still somehow working, this list still exists.”

Regarding the “Peace to All” event itself, the singer stated that before filming the video he had not known that pro-Kremlin artists were participating in it. After the shoot, he prohibited the use of his image, but it was included in the video anyway. Vinnyk commented sarcastically on his inclusion in the “Myrotvorets” database:

“And they put me on this list because I pose a threat to the whole world. Well, great.”

To date, the “Myrotvorets” database includes not only Ukrainians and Russians, but also Western politicians and public figures. In particular, director Woody Allen has been added to it.