Strictly Come Dancing's former professional dancer Kristina Rihanoff has explained her comments on President Vladimir Putin during the ongoing Ukraine invasion after receiving a huge backlash.
The ballroom star, 44, had shared a series of tweets that some of her fans and followers had labelled "insensitive" following the crisis.
The Russian celebrity, who quit the BBC dance competition in 2015, retweeted a cartoon of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.
In the image, the three leaders stood atop a pile of bloody bodies as Biden pointed and said "Russian man bad." Responses alleged Kristina had shared a pro-Putin cartoon as the dancer captioned her post: "Don’t even have to say anything - pure genius." Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter Kristina later shared a headline by Sky News which announced that Russia had been kicked out of the Eurovision Song Contest this year, as she raged: "F….ing breaking news.
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