The daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov blasted the sanctions taken by the US towards her household as “insanity” — claiming they stemmed from “extreme hatred toward everything Russian.”
Elizaveta Peskova, 24, lashed out on Telegram after she and her household had their belongings frozen for what the Treasury Department known as “enabling Putin’s unjustified and unprovoked war.”
“In my opinion, sanctioning adult children, who’ve already for a long time lead their own personal lives (especially a young girl!) and professional lives – it’s insanity,” she wrote within the wake of the sanctions introduced on March 11. “To blame family for ‘enabling war’ is insanity.”
Peskova had initially been amongst these within the Russian elite to talk out towards the warfare.
She posted “No to war” in Russian to her 237,000 Instagram followers within the early hours of the invasion, earlier than deleting the publish.
In an interview with Business Insider last week, nevertheless, Peskova stated she wasn’t talking about the warfare in Ukraine particularly.
“When I say it, I mean that I am for peace, not only in Ukraine but all around the world,” she stated, including that she would “not talk about the situation going on — I can only speak about the sanctions and I can only say what I feel and what I think about the sanctions.”
Putin has outlawed dissent towards his so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, threatening motion towards even those that name it a warfare.
In her Telegram publish, Peskova known as the sanctions a “witch hunt” of “extreme hatred toward everything Russian.”
Peskova accused the US of holding Russia to a double commonplace, citing a litany of previous American navy actions.
“I would like to recommend that American politicians pay attention to the children of those who fought in Vietnam, who bombed Yugoslavia, and, of course, not to forget about the [nuclear bombs] ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man,’ [as well as] Korea, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan,” she wrote. “I visited American for the first, and likely the last, time when I was 9 years old, and I can say today that there is nothing good, or bad, over there, that we don’t have here.”
“I would like to add that I am proud of being Russian,” she added.
