A RUSSIAN influencer faces up to five years in jail after “tickling” the breast of a famous war statue.

Alena Agafonova, 23, landed herself in sizzling water after posting a video beneath The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd, southwest Russia, on Instagram final yr.

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The memorial, a 279ft statue of a girl brandishing a sword, commemorates the “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” – one of World War 2’s most epic battles.

In the video, which is now formally banned in Russia, Alena seems to “tickle” the determine’s proper breast.

She went into hiding in Sri Lanka quickly after the movie was made.

Alena was subsequently placed on Russia’s wished record following the incident and was held this week as she arrived again in her homeland.

The influencer was instantly transported from Moscow to Volgograd and is now detained for 2 months pending additional investigations.

She issued a humbling apology for her act however nonetheless faces prison prosecution in Volgograd and a sentence of up to five years.

Alena has been accused of “desecration of a burial site” and “cynical actions that disregard the norms of morality”, in addition to the “rehabilitation of Nazism”.

Her hounding exhibits the brand new morality in Russia underneath Vladimir Putin amid the war with Ukraine.

The authorities are cracking down on any behaviour seen as anti-patriotic or in defiance of “traditional values”.

Footage confirmed Alena handcuffed as a legislation enforcement officer berated her for her behaviour.

“I am informing you that the investigative department for the Central district of Volgograd has a criminal case against you for the desecration of a symbol of military glory of Russia,” he mentioned.

The officer added that her video had been an “insult to the memory of defenders of the fatherland”.

Alena then appeared to have been ordered to make a public apology – an rising development in Putin’s repressive state with those that flout the ever-stricter legal guidelines.

“I address all residents of Russia and Volgograd and ask everyone not to commit the acts I did last year because of my stupidity,” she mentioned.

“I didn’t even think that I could insult someone’s feelings.”

“I ask all Russian citizens for forgiveness.”

Separately, she supplied “deep apologies” for her stunt.

The statue is amongst probably the most famous in Russia and commemorates those that fought and died in one of the bloodiest battles in the Second World War, ensuing in a decisive Soviet victory towards Adolf Hitler.

The USSR suffered a couple of million casualties throughout the Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from August 1942 till February 1943.

Separately, social activist Rasul Akhiyaretdinov has known as for Putin to cowl up The Motherland Calls statue.

He was embarrassed by her “openly protruding nipples” in which he mentioned he discerned “gay moments and a decline in morality”.

The statue, which dates from the Soviet period in 1967, may very well be upsetting to each Orthodox and Muslim Russians, Akhiyaretdinov claims.

“It would be better if the Motherland was more covered,” he mentioned.

He plans to attraction to Putin to name for a cover-up.

Elsewhere, a pair of feminine Russian influencers had been pressured into abject apologies and can face hefty fines over a kiss they posted on social media.

Vlada Alchaeva, 24, and her good friend Vika, 19, had been instructed they may “harm the psyche” of kids who noticed them kiss one another final week.

Another influencer additionally confronted a possible six yr jail sentence in Russia for utilizing Instagram after the app was banned by Putin.

Veronika Loginova, 18, claimed she had been victimised as a result of she “stands out too much”.

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