The stateside assets of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, Dmitriy Peskov, his wife and children, along with 12 lawmakers, were frozen for enabling Putin’s unjustified and unprovoked war.
The US on Friday unleashed new sanctions on Russian oligarchs connected to the attack on Ukraine — including President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman and his family.
The spokesman and his family lead “luxurious lifestyles that are incongruous with Peskov’s civil servant salary,” the Treasury Department said.
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