It had become the symbol of the Mariupol massacres. The photo of Marianna, a young woman nine months pregnant, coming out with a wounded face from the pediatric hospital in the Ukrainian city bombed by the Russians, had gone around the world . It was March 2022. Mosca defended himself by speaking of "staging" and "propaganda", claiming that the girl was an actress.

Today Marianna openly supports Vladimir Putin . Already after those bombings, the pro-Russian woman had actually said that the hospital was occupied by men from the Azov Battalion who "used women giving birth as human shields".

Today she lives between Donetsk and Moscow and in a post on Instagram she had herself photographed at the signature collection point to support Putin's candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections.

« I found time to go to the signature collection point to support Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the presidency of Russia. For me such a choice is obvious: I see no reason to change anything . Now, despite the sanctions and all the problems, Russia is developing dynamically. It is protecting its citizens and working to make tomorrow better than yesterday. This is why I, like many other citizens, support Vladimir Putin", wrote Marianna accompanying the photo.

There were many disdainful comments: "Putin almost killed your son and you signed for him", "Sold out", "Shame on you, you disgust me" , "We were all worried about you when we saw those photos, you turned out to be a sellout ».

(Unioneonline/L)