President Vladimir Putin’s daughter Maria Vorontsova has criticized the United States and the West for trying to undermine Russia’s economy and likened Russians to Jews in Nazi Germany in leaked social media posts, according to a report.
Vorontsova, 37, has been identified as the person behind a secret Maria V account that is attacking critics of the Ukrainian invasion on a group of Telegram alumni for her alma mater, Moscow State University, the London Times reported.
In screenshots received by the editor-in-chief of Russia’s anti-Kremlin news outlet, Putin’s eldest daughter defended Moscow’s actions, saying the West had “always done everything possible to ensure” that Russia failed.
“If suddenly, as almost happened in the 1990s, Russia becomes a full-fledged appendage of US and EU raw materials, I would be interested to see who you blame for the fact that we do not live in a prosperous economy,” Vorontsova wrote.
In the conversation about Ukraine, Vorontsova also mentioned how the United States is also starting wars and sharply commented on her father’s responsibility for the invasion.
Maria Vorontsova was identified as the person behind the secret Maria V account. Dmitry FeoktistovTASS via Getty Images
“What naivety. These are children’s stories, “she said. “Blaming everything and assigning all the responsibility to one person is the same as believing in one person, as a king. The same nonsense. “
She then brazenly compared the Russians to the Jews in Nazi Germany.
“We are not like the Germans in the 1930s, but rather like those who expelled you,” Vorontsova added, according to Newsweek.
Rescuers are working on the site of a residential building destroyed by Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Wednesday. AP Photo / Andriy Andriyenko
The pediatric endocrinologist – Putin’s daughter from his first marriage – also snatched a user for using the word “annexation” to describe Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, arguing that the term ignores “the will of the people” in a referendum on occupied territory, the London Times reported.
“No one in the West needs our country to be prosperous,” a post attributed to Vorontsova said, according to Newsweek.
Putin has rarely acknowledged his two daughters, believed to be the children of the Russian leader and his ex-wife, Lyudmila Putin. Mihail Klimentiev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
“They have always done their best to ensure that this does not happen. And they will continue to do so, “she said.
However, Republic editor Dmitry Kolezev wrote that Vorontsova’s reports suggested that she did not “directly approve” of the war in Ukraine.
He said she broadly supported the Kremlin’s claim that Russia was “not an aggressor, but a victim and forced to defend itself,” Newsweek reported.
Soldiers from the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic stand next to the body of a man killed in the shelling in Donetsk. AP Photo / Alexey Alexandrov
The publications were reportedly shared in a group of 170 graduates of Moscow State University’s medical school, where she graduated in 2011.
Kolezev reportedly said sources in the chat room and a journalist told him that “Maria V.’s account belonged to Vorontsova and the personal data she shared reflected what was publicly known about her.
Vorontsova, also identified as Maria Putina, and Putin’s other daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, were among those sanctioned last month in the latest round of US and European economic sanctions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The European Union has imposed similar sanctions on its daughters.
Putin rarely acknowledges the two daughters believed to be the children of the Russian leader and his ex-wife, Lyudmila Putin, a former flight attendant. The couple was married for nearly 30 years before divorcing in 2013.
It is widely rumored that the Kremlin leader has other children, although their identities have never been confirmed. The White House said the sanctions affected “Putin’s elderly children.”
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