The United States has sanctioned Vladimir Putin’s two legitimate children in response to Russia’s conflict in Ukraine. Russia has been heavily accused of war crimes during its invasion of its former Soviet neighbour. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is among many who have accused Russia of war crimes following the discovery of more than 300 dead in Bucha as Russian soldiers fled.
Some of the bones discovered in a town near Kyiv were civilians with their wrists tied behind their backs.
The penalties on Putin’s family, whom the US suspects of assisting in the concealment of his wealth, are in part a reaction to the atrocities in Bucharest.
The sanctions are aimed against Putin’s ex-wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva’s children, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova.
According to sources, Vorontsova is a paediatric rare illness expert, while Tikhonova is a professor at Moscow State University.
Putin’s family is little known, however the Kremlin strongman is rumoured to have fathered another daughter with Russian billionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, with whom he was last affiliated around the time of his president in 2000.
Luiza Rozova, 19, the supposed love child, whose mother is Ms Krivonogikh, has not acknowledged or disputed being Putin’s daughter.
Proekt Media, an independent Russian media source that was later banned by Moscow, was the first to reveal that the adolescent was the tyrant’s daughter.
Andrey Zakharov, the acclaimed BBC Russian Service journalist who published the Proekt report, chatted with Luiza on the chat room app Clubhouse in February last year.
However, the Russian socialite, who is seldom seen in the media, lashed out at the reporter after he said she was only renowned because of her ties to Putin.
“It appears that you know very little about me,” she said.
“I have nothing to do with politics, I do what I like.
“Did you think that I would remove my account?
“To hell, no! I live my life, I like fashion.
“This is not my main passion, but I like it and I am not going to stop everything I’ve been doing in the past, how I lived and whom I saw because of your investigation.”
