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An angry crowd holding signs saying 'war criminal's daughter' gathered outside the Kensington home of Polina Kovaleva over the weekend, amid calls for family members of Putin's allies to be sanctioned.
The couple, who have not been named for security reasons, first met in 2015 during the war in the Donbas region and were reunited earlier this year during Russia's latest military invasion.
The money raised by the Mail Force charity is being passed to aid groups already on the ground in Ukraine and in surrounding countries helping stricken refugees.
Vladimir Putin's unrelenting campaign plumbed new depths yesterday as Russian bombs wiped out an entire city in eastern Ukraine.
MARK GALEOTTI: Criticism of war in Ukraine has been aired on Russian TV and I have no doubt it will embolden people to start talking about the dead-end into which Putin is leading them.