Sergej Lawrov's stepdaughter, Polina Kovaleva, sanctioned because ministers are targeting relatives of Wladimir Putin's buddies

Sergej Lawrov's "stepdaughter" was placed on the sanction list because the government focuses its attention to the relatives of Vladimir Putin's Kumpane

Polina Kovaleva, the 26-year-old daughter of the lover of the Russian Foreign Minister, was put on the list in addition to the paramilitary Wagner group, which is considered Putin's private army.

to take measures against Kovaleva, which bought an apartment in Kensington at the age of 21 for £ 4.4 million, "sends a strong signal that those who benefit from the association of those responsible for Russian aggression fall within the scope of our sanctions," said the Foreign Ministry.

It added that six other banks were affected by sanctions, including Alfa Bank, together with the world's largest diamond producer Alrosa.

Sanctioned people include Eugene Shvidler, the billion dollar oil; Oleg Tinkov, the founder of Tinkoff Bank, and Herman Gref, the CEO of Russia's largest bank Sberbank.

In the meantime, Galina Danilchenko, who was used by Moscow as the mayor of the occupied Melitopol in the southeast of Ukraine, was also targeted in the first complaint against someone for collaboration with Russian armed forces in Ukraine.

All sanctioned persons are frozen their assets and they are forbidden to travel to or out of the United Kingdom.

tightening of the "economic truck around Putin"

After landing in Brussels to a NATO summit, Boris Johnson told TV stations: "Wladimir Putin is clearly determined to double his path of violence and aggression."

He described Putin's treatment of the Ukrainians as "absolutely brutal" and added: "We have to reinforce. We have to strengthen our support.

"We have to tighten the economic truck around Putin, sanction more people today than we, sanction the Wagner group, check what we can do to prevent Putin from using his gold reserves and also do more to help the Ukrainians with defense."

The Wagner Group plans to murder Mr. Zelensky, as his armed forces continue to resist far than many expected.

Western officials had expected to support a Ukrainian uprising at this point in the war than the army of the nation that is holding back.

The United Kingdom has now sanctioned 1,000 individuals and companies since the invasion.

At the beginning of this month, MPs in the Daily Telegraph had asked that Kovaleva had to expect sanctions together with her mother Swetlana Polyakova, Lawrows.

"There will be no decline"

Russian oligarchs often hide their wealth on behalf of their wives or family members.

Polyakova's lifestyle and their growing real estate portfolio worth several million pounds are said to have been financed by their lover. Kovalevas now deleted Instagram account shows how it relaxes on a yacht that belongs to the recently sanctioned Oleg Deripaska.

From a profile on the website of the Imperial College shows that she had studied for a master in Economics & Strategy for Business in 2018 after working for the Russian oil giant Gazprom.

in 2016 Kovaleva, then 21 years old, paid for an apartment in Kensington High Street for £ 4.4 million.

It is unclear where she is currently alive and she did not answer on inquiries about comments that The Telegraph had left in her house in London at the beginning of this month.

Foreign Minister Liz Truss said: “These oligarchs, companies and hired rackets are complicit in the murder of innocent civilians, and it is correct that they pay the price for it.

"Putin should not make any illusions - we are united with our allies and will continue to attract the screw to the Russian economy to help it fail in Ukraine.

The Federal Foreign Office said that the access to the entire global asset of the banks that the United Kingdom had sanctioned since the invasion of £ 500 and the net assets of the oligarchs and family members to over £ 150 billion.