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Will Stewart & Graeme Murray

Vladimir Putin's rumoured lover dances in Russia as missiles rain down on Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s rumoured lover Alina Kabaeva is seen dancing without a care in the world as missiles rain down on Ukraine in new footage.

Russia’s “secret first lady”, is rumoured to have several children with the warmonger and rarely appears in public

But video footage has captured her strutting her stuff in Sochi as the slaughter in Ukraine goes on.

A girl was reported to have been killed in Kryvyi Rih today where a residential block was hit in one of Putin’s biggest bombardments of the 10-month war.

But new footage shows Kabaeva, 39, a former rhythmic gymnastics Olympic gold medal winner, dancing at the Sirius training complex in Black Sea resort Sochi, where she is based.

Alina Kabaeva dances at the Divine Grace gymnastics tournament in Sochi, south of Russia, earlier this month (social media/e2w)

She staged the dance earlier this month but video has only now emerged of her carefree moves.

Kabaeva is also seen also proudly wearing a ‘Z’ badge linked to 70-year-old Putin’s war in Ukraine, a symbol of the barbarity he has unleashed in the conflict and likened by critics to Hitler’s swastika.

Showbiz outlet paparazzi.ru suggested she has undergone new plastic surgery before opening a new gymnastics centre at Sirius as well as an international tournament called Heavenly Grace.

“Everyone noticed her appearance had changed,” said a report.

“Alina clearly needs to do something with her plastic surgeons.

“Attempts to narrow her naturally wide face have so far delivered questionable results.

She wore a massive Z badge at the opening of the new Russian gymnastics centre in Sirius, Sochi (Yana Batyrshina/east2west news)

“With each public appearance her face ‘melts’ more, and becomes more asymmetrical.”

Russian showbiz outlet Starhit described her as looking “slimmed down, with an elegantly shaped face”.

Kabaeva is seen as having been Putin’s girlfriend since 2008 - when he was still married to former Russian first lady Lyudmila Putina.

The dancing gymnast is a former MP who now heads a pro-Putin media empire in Russia earning millions of pounds a year.

Alina and Vladimir Putin at an event in Kremlin (Kremlin.ru)

But the president has never admitted to a relationship with her.

Putin has previously said: "I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.”

He deplored "those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives”.

Kabaeva is on record as saying she had met a man who "I love very much”, gushing: "Sometimes you feel so happy that you even feel scared."

She dances without a care in the world (Social media/EAST2WEST NEWS)

Earlier this month she was spotted wearing a brooch with the chilling 'Z' symbol to show support for his brutal Ukraine war.

In a rare public appearance she made clear her backing for the invasion in images.

The gold medal-winning former Olympian sported jewellery with the letter Z, originally thought to be a pragmatic emblem for military tactics that was seen painted on tanks, it's now a chilling symbol of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

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