Putin’s daughters face possible EU, US sanctions over Ukraine invasion

The Biden administration is anticipated to announce sanctions on Mr. Putin’s daughters this week, U.S. officers stated.

EU member states nonetheless should approve the sanctions, that are amongst dozens of newly proposed, focused journey bans and asset freezes in opposition to Russian enterprise folks, politicians, officers and their households. EU officers introduced particulars of different new sanctions earlier Tuesday. They embody a ban on imports of Russian coal, slashing the entry of Russian street carriers and ships into the bloc, restrictions aimed toward oligarchs and their households, and the blocking of some high-technology equipment exports.

Mr. Putin doesn’t converse publicly about his household. He has two daughters along with his former spouse, Lyudmila Putina, in response to the Kremlin. It isn’t recognized if Mr. Putin has different youngsters, and it couldn’t be realized if the daughters being focused within the EU sanctions have been these he has publicly acknowledged.

In 2013, the couple stated their marriage was over. The next 12 months, the Kremlin confirmed that the Russian president had finalized the divorce of his spouse of practically 30 years. The Kremlin didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark in regards to the EU sanction plans.

The president’s private life is usually shrouded in secrecy. His separation in 2013 from his spouse, a former stewardess for Russia’s nationwide service Aeroflot, got here in a shock announcement in a quick look after a efficiency of the ballet “La Esmeralda” on the Kremlin theater. It set the stage for the primary divorce, the next 12 months, of a Russian chief since Peter the Nice and ended years of hypothesis in regards to the state of the couple’s union. Mr. Putin described the top of the wedding as a “joint determination.”

The couple’s daughters have largely saved out of public view, to such an extent that many Russians don’t know what they appear to be.

In 2020, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised reporters that Mr. Putin doesn’t take note of varied publications about his personal life and his state of well being. The Russian president often explains his reluctance to speak about his private life “as a matter of safety and a want to stay nameless for his family members to allow them to stay a standard life,” Russia’s state information company, TASS reported that 12 months.