Putin's 'goddaughter', critical of Ukraine war, flees Russia

Popular Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak who criticised Kremlin since the beginning of Russia-Ukraine war, has fled to Lithuania.

Quoting intelligence services, The Guardian reported that she left Russia after Moscow police raided one of houses.

Sobchak, also rumoured as Russian President Vladmir Putin's goddaughter reportedly crossed the Belarus-Lithuania border on October 25 night.

She reportedly bought plane tickets from Moscow to Dubai via Istanbul in her bid to play the Russian authorities.

A Lithuania official confirmed that the Russian journalist crossed the border on Israeli pasport due to an entry ban for Russian citizens holding tourist visas.

Sobchak's Ostorozhno Media project has been criticial of the Putin government since the beginning of war.

One of her colleagues was recently jailed for allegedly criticising Kremlin. She had called the arrest 'another instance of pressure on media'.

Her move to flee the country is being speculated as an attempt to avoid arrest.

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