FOG BLOG PUTIN'S WAR ON UKRAINE: NEW U.S. SANCTIONS NOW INCLUDE PRESIDENT PUTIN'S GROWN DAUGHTERS:

U.S. Sanctions Mean Bad News for Putin’s Adult Daughters...The U.S. and Europe are turning up the economic pressure against Russia amid international outcry over apparent atrocities against Ukrainians.........he United States is toughening its sanctions campaign against Russia amid mounting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, imposing new penalties on financial institutions and family members of Kremlin officials—including Vladimir Putin’s adult daughters. Maria Putina and Katerina Tikhonova, whom Putin and the Kremlin have kept shrouded in mystery, will be cut off from the U.S. financial system and have their U.S. assets frozen, the White House announced Wednesday. The E.U. has also proposed freezing the pair’s European assets and barring them from traveling in Europe.

“It’s part of the continuation of our efforts to put consequences in place,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday.

“We are targeting the Kremlin, the political and economic elites supporting Putin’s war in Ukraine,” E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also said, per the Wall Street Journal.

Putin rarely speaks about his family and the Kremlin has never identified the two daughters by their last name, as the Journal notes. Putina and Tikhonova are his daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina, which ended in divorce in 2014. Putina, the eldest born in 1985, is an endocrinologist married to Jorrit Faassen, a Dutch businessman. Tikhonova, born in 1986, has worked for Moscow State University and was married to Kirill Shamalov, a Russian businessman whose father is a friend of Putin and a co-owner of Bank Rossiya, an institution that has been crucial to helping Russian elites store their wealth overseas. Tikhonova and Shamalov are said to have split in 2018. Putin acknowleged to Russian state media in 2020 that he has grandchildren who are “very good, sweet.” He said, “I get great pleasure from communicating with them.”