After the banks, senior military officials and agents in the service of Russian propaganda, the Europeans are now attacking Vladimir Putin's personal portfolio.
They froze on Friday all the assets that the Russian president holds in the EU.
The sanction is the same for his very faithful Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov who, again on Friday, presented the Russian attack as a “
special military operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
”.
The two men will, on the other hand, be able to continue to travel in Europe.
Before them, only the dictators of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Syria Bashar al-Assad had been thus targeted by Europe.
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