Vladimir Putin’s ‘goddaughter’ has issued a requirement for an end to his horrific war in Ukraine.
TV presenter, media owner, influencer and socialite Ksenia Sobchak, 44, pleaded for an end to the bloodshed in a post this week.
Her late father, former St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak, was Putin’s political mentor, and the dictator attended her Orthodox Church baptism.
In a post marking the fourth anniversary of the war, the previous Playboy model lambasted the war began by Putin and said it ‘must end’.
‘For 4 years, my country has been living in war,’ she said, adding that the worst of the horrors were hidden from wealthier people living in Moscow, St Petersburg and other major cities.
‘This isn’t visible within the capitals. It isn’t visible within the cities. However it’s already woven into countless 1000’s, and 1000’s, and 1000’s of human destinies – and if we mark on a map every mother who lost a son or daughter, every wife who lost a husband, every family that lost an individual killed on the front – the entire country shall be burning with red dots of grief and pain.’
She warned: ‘Russians are dying, Ukrainians are dying—sometimes quickly, sometimes in pain and agonisingly slowly.
‘Cities on either side are freezing without heat and lightweight. All of this must end. Each countries shall be coping with the implications for a really very long time, many, a few years.
‘Today, I wish us all that at the present time will come sooner.’
Sobchak stood as a ‘liberal’ rival to Putin within the 2018 presidential election, but she is normally loyal to her godfather.
It comes as Russian media confirmed the names of 200,000 Russians who died within the war.
Other sources indicate the complete death toll to be around 320,000.
Shortly after the war broke out in 2022, Knesia used her Israeli passport to enter Lithuania from Belarus.
It’s believed she was running away from persecution as Moscow state investigators looked into whether she said the invasion into Ukraine was ‘funded from abroad’.
Many suspect Putin actually allowed Knesia to depart – reasonably than see the lady dubbed his ‘goddaughter’ held in detention like his other political foes.
However the socialite-turned-politician, who was once called the ‘Paris Hilton of Moscow’, grew as much as develop into a critic of the Kremlin.
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