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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rupert Neate

Who are the daughters of Vladimir Putin facing US sanctions?

Putin with former wife and two daughters on boat
Putin with his former wife, Lyudmila Putina, and their two daughters on holiday in 2002. Photograph: ITAR-TASS News Agency/Alamy

The identities of Putin’s daughters have never been confirmed by him or the Kremlin and no photographs of them as adults have ever been officially released. Even the number of children Putin has fathered is subject to intense speculation.

Officially, Putin has two children, Maria and Katerina, from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina, a former Aeroflot steward whom he divorced in 2013, becoming the first Russian leader to divorce since Peter the Great in 1698.

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