Russians say they found Elena Zelenskaya's "Russian passport" in Crimea

Russian propagandists have shown how they found the "passport" of Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska in a confiscated flat in occupied Yalta.

A Louis Vuitton handbag of his wife Yelena with a Russian passport was found in a stash in Zelensky's confiscated flat in Yalta, the author of the Telegram channel Colonelcassad, Boris Rozhin, who circulated a video allegedly taken in the flat of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's wife in Crimea, has said.

The short video shows someone holding a woman's clutch bag with a Louis Vuitton logo. Then a small amount of cash euros and a passport of a Russian citizen are taken out of the purse. In the spread of the document there is a photo of Elena Zelenskaya and her personal data.

It turned out that the photo from Zelenskaya's "passport" was taken from her Instagram and dated 2023.

The property was purchased by Zelensky's wife Olena in April 2013 in one of the residential complexes in the village of Livadiya on the Black Sea coast.

The Ukrainian president's press service said after 2014 that his family would use the property "only after the mandatory return of Crimea to Ukraine".

At the same time, the occupants said that they estimated the value of the housing at 23.9m roubles and that they planned to put it up for auction.