Vladimir Putin’s two daughters are among the 217 individuals that the European Union today agreed to impose sanctions on, while Russia’s assault on Ukraine continued for the 44th day.
The individuals include the daughters Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova, and oligarchs such as Herman Gref – the boss of Russia’s top lender Sberbank.
Most of the affected individuals are from the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. The EU also sanctioned 18 entities. Altogether, EU sanctions now apply to 1,091 individuals and 80 entities.
Meanwhile, the death toll of an airstrike on a railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine has hit 50, including five children, according to the region’s governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
In total, 98 people – 36 men, 16 children, and four women – were taken to hospital, he said, after the attack on the station that has been used to evacuate civilians from areas under Russian bombardment.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova described the attack as a “crime against humanity”, while the Kremlin claimed that the casualties were a “huge tragedy” for Russia.
