The European Union has proposed sanctioning two of Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
WSJ learned of the move from diplomats familiar with the plan. The proposal would add the daughters to a growing list of people sanctioned in response to Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Bloomberg earlier reported the EU's proposed list also included dozens of other individuals, including political figures, tycoons, and their family members, and several propagandists.
EU member states must approve the sanctions, which are among dozens of newly proposed targeted travel bans and asset freezes.
It was reported by Moscow state-owned Lenta.ru on Tuesday that Hungary had blocked the EU's embargo on Russian gas.
The European Commission proposed sweeping new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday including banning coal imports and halting trade worth nearly $22 billion.
Putin shares his two daughters, Maria Faassen and Katerina Tikhonova, with ex-wife Lyudmila Putina, the Daily Mail reported. It has been reported Putin has another daughter with a mistress.
Bloomberg reported sanctioning Putin's daughters is largely symbolic, but it also was designed to get the president's attention.
Putin has been very secretive about his daughters through the years. In 2015, he disclosed both women graduated from Russian universities and spoke multiple languages, Bloomberg reported.
The latest proposed sanctions came after satellite photographs released Monday appeared to rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had appeared there after Russian forces retreated from the devastated Ukrainian town.
Mid-March satellite imagery of a Bucha street appears to show several bodies of civilians lying dead in or just off the roadway where Ukrainian officials recently said they found multiple corpses after Russian troops withdrew.
Ukrainian intelligence has claimed Russia is working with smugglers to establish supply routes for material that cannot reach Russia because of Western sanctions.
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