Elizaveta Peskova had posted 'no to war' on a since-deleted Instagram Live story. Now she is facing US sanctions.
Elizaveta Dmitriyevna Peskova, the daughter of Putin spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov, has nearly 250,000 followers on Instagram.Others sanctioned Friday include Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, a businessman with close ties to the Kremlin and an estimated net worth of more than $6 billion , according to the Treasury Department. Assets now frozen by the US include a $90 million jet and and a $90 million yacht named Tango.
Ten people on the management board of VTB Bank were also sanctioned, as were 11 members of Russia's legislature who voted to recognise the Donbas region of Ukraine — occupied by Russian forces — as independent nations."Treasury continues to hold Russian officials to account for enabling Putin's unjustified and unprovoked war," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
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