I really can't decide myself whether this action is proper or not.
Ah so you want us to help you decide? Well, for me this action is improper because number one, Russian citizens are innocent and it wasn't their fault on why there is a war between their country and Ukraine.
Number two is, the person is away from the country of Russian but the sanctions are only supposed to happen under the country of Russia and I am curious if how they will know that the person is relative from those who live in Russia? Did the authorities force them to tell? And maybe they give threats that if they don't tell, the truth, something bad will happen to them. They don't have a choice and their relatives but to follow the order.
If you read carefully, sanctions have been imposed:
- against companies
- industry
- against government officials and their relatives
- against natural persons and their relatives.
This was done for a reason, but in order to maximally block the possibility of avoiding punishment. Did you think the sanctions would be only against those whose workplace is indicated by the "Kremlin"? This is really stupid!
Now the Russians involved in crimes that surpassed the crimes of Nazi Germany will be "nailed down" like fleeing cockroaches from a garbage pit, wherever possible, wherever they are caught, by any available method - blocking any means, seizing assets, criminal prosecution.