The kids of Russian officers who railed towards the West throughout the release of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have taken common holidays in NATO international locations previous to and for the duration of the conflict, an research has located.
The Insider, an unbiased Russian-language information outlet, scoured the Instagram money owed of people linked with the kids of top-rating Russian officers inclusive of Foreign Intelligence Director Sergei Naryshkin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Vladimir Dzhabarov, a senior member of the Russian Federation Council.
It located that a number of their kids had vacationed in NATO member nations inclusive of Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the United States, after Putin released a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
While the Instagram account of Naryshkin’s daughter, Veronika, is private, the information outlet analyzed excursion pics taken with the aid of using her near friend, Victoria Kosolapova. The pair reportedly tour collectively frequently.
Photos uploaded on Kosolapova’s account on Instagram—that is banned in Russia—display the pair in Turkey.
They additionally snapped pix collectively in Italy, and Greece, The Insider located, at the same time as Naryshkin in July 2022 accused the navy alliance of “waging a hybrid strugglefare towards each Russia and our ally, the Republic of Belarus.”
Naryshkin has repeated the Kremlin line that Russia attacked Ukraine in an attempt to “de-Nazify” the u . s . and take away its “neo-Nazi” leaders from energy.
He claimed in April 2022 in a piece of writing posted at the internet site of Russia’s National Defense mag that Western international locations are susceptible to falling under “Nazi” control.
The Russian intelligence leader argued that “it is feasible that [the end of an awakening in the West] will give up now no longer with the aid of using the approaching to energy withinside the U.S. and European states of nationally oriented, practical and realist politicians, however with the aid of using the status quo of whole and undisguised liberal-Nazi dictatorships withinside the Western area.”
The Insider additionally located that Ksenia Shoigu, daughter of the Russian protection minister took a lavish excursion in Dubai to ring withinside the New Year, staying at Caesars Palace Dubai.
And Alexander Dzhabarov, the son of sanctioned Vladimir Dzhabarov, a deputy head of the overseas affairs committee withinside the decrease residence of the Russian parliament, these days took holidays in Turkey and the United States.
“While the senator turned into exposing the ‘pro-American’ opposition, his son Alexander Dzhabarov, with the aid of using coincidence, traveled exactly in America,” the opening wrote.
In August 2021, Alexander Dzhabarov and his spouse visited San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in latest months, he visited Turkey and Dubai, it located.
