INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The EU blacklisted Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters and more than 200 other people as part of its latest sanctions
package over Moscow's war in Ukraine, according to an official list published late Friday.Those on the list, which additionally included 18
Friday with the publication in the European Union's Official Journal, which requires translation work to be made available in 24 languages.A
Deripaska who owns arms factories; defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov; more members of the ultra-wealthy Rotenberg family close to
Putin; and the members of the political administrations running separatist Russian-backed enclaves in eastern Ukraine."We are again
reinforcing our sanctions lists and adding more people from politics, the business sector and those engaged in propaganda activities,
together with more entities from the financial, military-industrial and transport sectors," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a
The aim of our sanctions is to stop the reckless, inhuman and aggressive behavior of the Russian troops and make clear to the decision
makers in the Kremlin that their illegal aggression comes at a heavy cost."The EU said Vorontsova was on the list because she was co-owner
of Nomenko, a company "involved in Russia's largest private investment project in healthcare." She was thus deemed to benefit from the
Russian government and was involved in a sector providing it revenue.She is reputedly married to a Russian-born Dutch businessman, according
to media reports.The EU list had her sister Tikhonova included because "she currently heads the Innopraktika development initiative, funded
by key Russian companies whose directors are members of the inner circle of oligarchs close to President Putin." She was also seen to
benefit from the Kremlin and be involved in providing it revenue.The European Union has already imposed an asset freeze on Putin himself
over the invasion of Ukraine as it tries to ratchet up pressure on the Russian president and his inner circle,The EU's latest package of
sanctions bans imports of Russian coal, blocks Russian ships from entering European ports, and expands sanctions on Russia's financial
