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EU Goes After Putins’ Daughters - EU Adds Putins' Daughters to Growing Sanctions Lists
Two of Putins’ daughters are facing EU sanctions amid outrage over Ukraine
Sanctions on Russia to be Ramped Up - Western leaders to impose further sanctions on Russia
BBC News 6 APR 2022.
Vladimir Putin’s daughters on EU sanctions hit list
As the children of Vladimir Putin, their lives are shrouded in secrecy. Now, Brussels plans to hit the Russian president's two daughters with sanctions as it responds to accusations of war crimes.
Katerina Tikhonova and Mariya Vorontsova are on a draft list of targets including politicians, propagandists, oligarchs and their family members. As Europe Editor James Crisp reports, the hit list - which is subject to change and will involve asset freezes and travel bans - will be put before ambassadors from the European Union today for approval
The EU is expected today to approve a fifth round of sanctions against Moscow, including a ban on Russian coal imports - the first such measure against Kremlin-controlled energy. It comes after Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky insisted that the United Nations should be dissolved if it cannot rein in Russia. Meanwhile, defence and security editor Dominic Nicholls explains how a "tag-team" of US drones may soon be deployed for the first time to help Ukraine destroy Russian artillery. And the Czech Republic has sent tanks to Ukraine, becoming the first Nato country to provide the heavy armour that Kyiv has long requested.
The Russian invaders might have been forced out from the Kyiv region, but the destruction they wreaked is appalling - the death toll still unclear and a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions looms large. Amid the rubble and the mass graves, defence correspondent Danielle Sheridan discovers how the "liberated" have to rebuild their shattered lives in her dispatch from the town of Borodyanka (pictured above), where the death toll could be worse than in Bucha. With defence experts suggesting it could be weeks before Russia is ready to fight again,
Western leaders are set announce a further set of sanctions against Russia.
The measures will target Russian financial and state-owned bodies, as well as some officials and oligarchs.
Calls for further sanctions have grown in recent days amid allegations of Russian atrocities in Bucha.
The town's mayor told the BBC on Tuesday night that Russian forces had killed around 320 civilians during their occupation of the town, while the discovery of mass graves has caused outage in western capitals.
Ms Psaki told reporters during a news conference in Washington DC on Tuesday that the sanctions, which are expected to include a ban on all new investment in Russia, will "degrade key instruments of Russian state power, impose acute and immediate economic harm on Russia".
The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday that the Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, may be among those targeted.
Media has suggested that sanctions could also target the two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, though Ms Psaki refused to comment on the reports.
The sanctions will be announced will be taken in coordination with the EU and other G7 nations.
"In coordination with the G7 and the EU, an additional sweeping package of sanctions measures that will impose costs on Russia to send it further down the road of economic, financial, and technological isolation," Ms Psaki said.
On Tuesday, the European Commission proposed broad new sanctions on Russia, including a potential ban on imports of Russian coal and additional measures targeting state-owned businesses and officials and oligarchs in Moscow.
The proposed ban on Russian coal, which must be agreed by all 27 member states, would mark the first time the EU has blocked imports of Russian energy.
The bloc buys around €4bn (£3.3bn) worth of coal from Moscow every year.
Some member states, including Germany, are heavily reliant on Russian energy and had been reluctant to directly target the sector. But sentiment appeared to change after evidence of Russian war crimes emerged, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining calls for a ban earlier this week.
Activists and young Ukrainians demonstrate with a giant peace sign and 'Stop Putin's oil ' in front of the Justus Lipsius
EU officials say sanctions on Russian imports of coal and oil are definitely being considered
Member states are also expected to impose a "full transaction ban" on four Russian banks and ban a range of other Russian and Belarus imports, including wood, cement, seafood and liquor, worth €5.5 billion (£4.59bn).
And Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said she intends to close EU ports to Russian vessels and ban Russian and Belarusian road transport operators from the region.
Ms Von der Leyen accused Russia of "waging a cruel and ruthless war" against Ukrainian civilians and said the EU must "sustain utmost pressure on Putin and the Russian government at this critical point".
But Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Tuesday evening criticized the EU's proposed sanctions package, calling it a "feeble response" which is "an invitation for more atrocities."
"Coal, four banks…a ban on ports and borders (with exceptions) is not really an adequate sanctions package to the massacres that are being uncovered," Vilnius' chief diplomat wrote on Twitter.
Addressing the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian leaders of committing war crimes in his country and called for them to be brought to justice.
"The Russian military searched for and purposefully killed anyone who served our country," he said. "They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies."
Also on Tuesday, American officials said they will provide $100m (£76m) in anti-armour Javelin missiles to Ukraine's forces.
US Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the newly-authorised money will "meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional Javelin anti-armour systems, which the United States has been providing to Ukraine and they have been using so effectively to defend their country".
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Russian military CUT OUT THE TONGUES of civilians BEFORE they killed them
The Truth About Vladimir Putin's Daughters
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