Wife of Russia's Deputy Defence Minister spends time in Courchevel while her husband orders attacks on Ukrainian cities

Svetlana, the wife of Timur Ivanov, Deputy Defence Minister of the Russian Federation, is having fun at the Courchevel ski resort in the French Alps during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Source: investigation by UP journalist Mykhailo Tkach "Courchevel is 'theirs' 2. Ukrainska Pravda found the Russian elite at the resort"

Details: The wife of a senior Russian military officer is seen having fun surrounded by Russian singer Valery Meladze and shopping in the resort's boutiques. She was spotted at the resort on 8 March 2023.

Journalists of the Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation reportedly published a story about the contents of Svetlana Ivanova's mail three months ago.

It turned out that she and her husband were spending millions of dollars on a lifestyle with palaces, luxury cars, jewellery and many other attributes of corruption that did not correspond to the official income of the person in charge of finance and construction.

Svetlana was buying jewellery in Paris a year ago, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, when Russia had been bombarding Ukraine. And last summer, Svetlana and Timur filed for divorce, which, according to journalists, had signs of being fictitious.

Shoigu's deputy is subject to EU sanctions in the autumn, but his ex-wife is not.

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And that's why Svetlana can still afford to travel and spend money in the best parts of the world while her husband continues to commit crimes one after another. Quote: "How is this possible, and why is the wife of one of the leaders of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine still enjoying life in the civilised world?" the investigation says.

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