The children of Russian officials who railed against the West during the launch of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have taken frequent vacations in NATO nations prior to and throughout the conflict, an investigation has found.
The Insider, an independent Russian-language news outlet, scoured the Instagram accounts of individuals connected with the children of top-ranking Russian officials including Foreign Intelligence Director Sergei Naryshkin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Vladimir Dzhabarov, a senior member of the Russian Federation Council.
It found that some of their children had vacationed in NATO member countries including Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the United States, after Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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