According to diplomats familiar with the plan, the European Union has proposed approving President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters, a move that puts family members close to the Russian leader on a growing list of approved individuals in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. will add.
US officials said the Biden administration could announce sanctions on Mr Putin’s daughters this week.
EU member states still must approve the sanctions, which are among dozens of newly proposed, targeted travel bans and assets piling up against Russian businessmen, politicians, officials and their families. EU officials announced details of other new restrictions earlier on Tuesday. These include restrictions on Russian coal imports, reducing the access of Russian road carriers and ships to the bloc, restrictions aimed at oligarchs and their families, and blocking certain high-technology machinery exports.
Mr Putin does not speak publicly about his family. According to the Kremlin, he has two daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina. It is not known whether Mr Putin has other children, and it is not known whether he has publicly acknowledged the daughters targeted by EU sanctions.
In 2013, the couple said that their marriage was over. The following year, the Kremlin confirmed that the Russian president had finalized his wife’s nearly 30-year divorce. The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the EU sanctions plans.
The personal life of the President is usually shrouded in secrecy. His separation in 2013 from his wife, a former hostess for Russia’s national carrier Aeroflot, came in a surprise announcement in a brief appearance after a performance of the ballet “La Esmeralda” at the Kremlin Theater. This set the stage for the first divorce, the following year, a Russian leader since Peter the Great and put an end to speculation about the status of the couple’s union. Mr Putin described the end of the marriage as a “joint decision”.
The couple’s daughters have largely been kept out of the public eye to such an extent that many Russians don’t know what they look like.
In 2020, President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Mr Putin does not pay attention to various publications about his personal life and the state of his health. The Russian president usually attributes his reluctance to talk about his personal life “as a matter of safety and a desire for his loved ones to remain anonymous so that they can lead a normal life,” Russia’s state news agency, TASS reported that year.
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