Following direct sanctions against Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin, the sanctions are now also affecting his immediate environment – both the EU and the US are planning to put his two daughters on the sanctions list. Two Russian banks are also affected by the measures.
An important reason for the further tightening and expansion of the measures are the atrocities in the Kiev suburb of Bucha. The punitive measures are now also directed against the adult children of the Russian The daughter of President and Foreign Minister Lavrov, as well as former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “This measure will cut them off from the US financial system and freeze their assets in the United States,” the White House said.
Response to “disgusting brutality”
“The disgusting brutality in Bucha has tragically exposed the despicable nature of Putin’s regime,” said a senior US official, referring to the massacre in the Ukrainian city.
As EU diplomats confirmed to the AFP news agency, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova are not only threatened with entry bans in the EU, but also with an asset freeze Europe.
Little is known about daughters
Little is known about Putin’s daughters, as the Russian president keeps his personal life a secret from the public. The eldest daughter, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985, the younger, Katerina Tikhonova, in 1986. Her mother is Ludmila Putina, from whom the head of state divorced in 2013. According to Russian media, Vorontsova is a doctor and co-owner of a medical research company.
Tikhonova heads an artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University. According to EU diplomats against the AFP news agency, the European Union would also like to put the two on the sanction list. Media reports say Putin has other children with other women, but little is known about them.
Lavrov’s daughter lives in London
Foreign Minister Lavrov is officially married to Maria, they have an adult daughter named Ekaterina and two grandchildren. However, the minister is said to have been living with his beloved Svetlana Polyakova for years, who has a daughter, Polina Kovaleva, from a previous relationship. Lavrov’s 26-year-old “stepdaughter”, who lives in London, has already been sanctioned by Britain.
War financing must be made more difficult
Important Russian state-owned companies are also subject to punitive measures. These would prohibit all US citizens from doing business with these companies. US corporate assets are frozen. This hinders the Kremlin’s ability to use these companies to fund the war in Ukraine, it said. The US Treasury Department also prohibits Russia from paying off debts with funds under US jurisdiction.
The US, EU, Britain and other allies have already imposed numerous sanctions on Moscow over Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. So far, the targets of the measures have included the Russian financial system, the technology sector and politicians and oligarchs considered to be Putin’s followers.
Source: Krone
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