Leave Out Russia Anna Linnikova says other contestants avoided her during the Miss Universe contest (Image: AP)
Miss Russia has claimed she used to be ‘avoided’ by the other contestants in the Miss Universe festival.
In an interview with Evening Moscow Omit Russia Anna Linnikova blamed her failure to growth to the competition’s closing 16 on political interference, and said she was once subjected to ‘negative feedback from lengthy-time friends from Ukraine’.
‘Many others avoided me and avoided me just by studying approximately my origins,’ she advised the publication. ‘the ladies from Ukraine and Switzerland merely ran from me like hearth!’
Appearing not to recognize her country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Linnikova stated it was a ‘pity’ that her Ukrainian counterpart Viktoria Apanasenko didn’t need to talk to her.
During one particularly awkward moment captured on digital camera, Linnikova attempted to stand next to Apanasenko all through a line-up at the event, prompting Leave Out Ukraine to ask some of her fellow contestants to switch places with her.
Pass Over Russia tries to intimidate Miss Ukraine via wanting to face but even so her âï¸
Pass Over Ukraine was disgusted & she asked Pass Over Columbia to switch places.
Everyone saw Viktoria’s demonstrative behaviour- this is her selection, and i don’t hang a grudge.’
Apasenko meanwhile hit back on the claims made via Pass Over Russia and informed the Day-To-Day Beast that she spent the morning of the finale gazing the aftermath of a Russian missile assault which hit the town of Dnipro and killed FORTY ONE civilians.
The United Nations estimates upwards of 7,000 civilians have been killed when you consider that Russia invaded Ukraine 11 months in the past.
‘i am more than grateful to miss Universe for their fortify, but i’m not sure the organisers understood what it felt like for me to be status and smiling on the related level with Leave Out Russia who was wearing a purple get dressed, the color of blood,’ she told the outlet.
She stated it used to be ‘absurd’ that Linnikova was once in a position to take to the degree dressed in a dressing up called ‘Crown of the Russian Empire’ while she were pressured to cover in a basement to take shelter from missile assaults just weeks earlier than the festival.