MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Ukraine announced this Thursday new sanctions against Russian politicians, businessmen and public figures, including Katerina Tijonova and Maria Putina, daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, or former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, whom many point to as the president’s lover.
The two decrees, published on Wednesday and collected this Thursday by the Interfax news agency, include restrictions against 2,507 individuals and 1,374 legal entities, both Russian and foreign – who have collaborated with Russia -, from the sports or politics sector. even the music.
Some of the most prominent personalities are Patriarch Kirill, the highest representative of the Orthodox Church in Russia; the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajarova; the deputy head of the Kherson Civil Military Administration, Kirill Stremousov, as well as Yevgeni Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch known as ‘Putin’s cook’ because of his closeness to the Russian president and linked to Russian ‘troll’ farms.
kyiv has also sanctioned the wife and daughter of the Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, the pro-Russian Ukrainian leader Viktor Medvedchuk, or various billionaires, including businessman Roman Abramovich.
