Vladimir Putin’s adult daughters in sanctions crosshairs “We have reason to believe that Putin and many of his followers and oligarchs hide their wealth, assets with family members who have deposits in the US financial system and in many other parts of the world,” a US government official told the adults Daughters of Vladimir Putin, Mariya Putina and Katerina Tikhonova. “We believe that many of Putin’s fortunes are hidden with his family and that is why we are targeting them,” the official said.
The European Union is also studying the possibility of including in the sanctions the daughters that the Russian president had by his first wife, Lyudmila Shkrebneva. This was revealed by diplomats quoted by the Wall Street Journal: the names of the president’s daughters would thus be added to the list of hundreds of Russian oligarchs and political figures hit in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration is also exploring the possibility of expanding sanctions on Sberbank Russia’s largest financial institution and Alfa Bank.