Britain imposed sanctions on Alina Kabaeva’s mother

On February 24, the UK expanded the sanctions list to include 92 people and companies from Russia. In particular, personal sanctions were imposed on the mother of Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, Lyubov.
Many surveys call Alina Kabaeva the mother of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s children. Before the war, Western countries did not include Putin’s entourage in sanctions lists, explaining this by their reluctance to provoke Moscow into retaliatory actions.
In addition to Lyubov Kabaeva, the February 24 British sanctions list included Putin’s former bodyguard, Tula region governor Alexei Dyumin, former Russian prime minister Viktor Zubkov, who now leads the council directors of the state-owned Gazprom, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, an old acquaintance of Putin, general director of the operator Nord Stream 2 Matthias Warnig, senior direction of Aeroflot and defense Almaz-Antey and Rostec.
Restrictions have been introduced against banks St. Petersburg, Uralsib, Bank Zenit and MTS-Bank, it is forbidden to import into the country electronic components, aircraft parts and radio electronics that could potentially be used in military production.
Additionally, sanctions were imposed on five executives of Iranian state-owned Quds Industry, a maker of drones that the Russian military uses in Ukraine.
The United States is expected to announce its sanctions on the anniversary of the war on February 24. The European Union was supposed to agree on the 10th sanctions package on that date, but the negotiations, by February 23, were unsuccessful.