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'Look at what's happening in Britain now. It's truly a freak show. God forgive me'
07:57, Mon, Feb 23, 2026 Updated: 08:33, Mon, Feb 23, 2026
Vladimir Putin and his foreign ministry mouthpiece Maria Zakharova (Image: EAST2WEST)
Britain has been labelled a “freak show” by the Vladimir Putin regime as it waded into the scandal over ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The dictator’s foreign ministry mouthpiece Maria Zakharova alleged the UK’s establishment was paying the price for turning a blind eye for so long.
“Look at what's happening in Britain now,” she said in an interview with state media outlet TASS. “It's truly a freak show, God forgive me….Look at what's happening there” - likening the fallout from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with a “circus”. "A member of the royal family, a man who made not just decisions, but was empowered to implement British policy both domestically and internationally….They seemed to distance themselves from him, stripped him of some titles, and then took him to the police station for a few hours,” she said. “True, they later released him. What does this mean?"
Maria Zakharova made the comments during an interview with state media outlet TASS (Image: east2west news)
“It means they had this man right under their noses, under the noses of MI5 and MI6, British intelligence and special services, and they were perfectly aware of what he was doing.
"Because, of course, they tap all phones, they tap and spy on members of their elite, of course.
“We remember how the wiretaps of Charles, Prince [now King] Charles, were periodically published, and so on.
“They're engaged in intrigue, they use various materials.
“They knew what he was doing, and they covered it up.”
At the same time, the "heinous scum” in Britain “invented stories about Russia being bad, expelled our diplomats, destroyed bilateral relations between people, between states, between societies.”
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor leaves Aylsham Police Station after he was arrested (Image: REUTERS)
Zakharova - who holds the rank Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is Moscow’s most senior woman diplomat - claimed “they have been concocting myths about Russia, about the alleged threat, about crimes that we, as they claimed, allegedly committed on their territory.
“Meanwhile, for so many years, all this scum was nesting right inside their communities, right at the heart of them, in the most luxurious districts of New York, London, and other European capitals, and in the United States of America.”
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