‘Gold digger’ widow demands £115k from Putin after her soldier husband dies in Ukraine… even though he was DIVORCING HER
A "GOLD digger" widow has demanded £115,000 in compensation after her husband was killed fighting in Ukraine - despite him filing for divorce.
Angelina Varyukhina, 22, wed frontline unit commander Georgy Kostryrko, 29, in a lavish £22,000 ceremony while he was on leave.
Days later, he went back to fight in Putin's war and Angelina took no time in going on a seaside report holiday to Sochi with another man.
She even posted racy videos of her new lover just ten days after her wedding.
Outraged Georgy saw her social media posts of her cheating on him and demanded a divorce while telling his mum back in Russia to handle the proceedings.
But the meatgrinder fighter was killed by cluster munitions in a Ukrainian strike at Sudzha in the Kursk region before the divorce came through.
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And now Angelina is claiming the full £115,860 official compensation given to war widows by tyrant Putin.
Georgy's mother Olga Kostyrko, 53, who had began the divorce proceedings before her son's death, is protesting this.
She “believes that the girl has no right to be called a ‘hero's widow’ and claim any money,” Russian media reported.
Her son, a salesman before the war, had even bought a car for Angelina as a present after their wedding.
A prominent general’s wife, Ekaterina Kolotovkina, accused the “scandalous” widow of “trying to appropriate all the payments due to the hero's family."
“I absolutely agree with [his mother],” said Ekaterina who supports families of war servicemen.
“She herself went to a resort with another man just a few days after the wedding.
"Having learned about her new relationship, he asked his mother to file for divorce. Imagine what was going on in his soul.
“I really hope that the court will pay attention to the hero's last will and his desire to divorce.
“Angelina is only 22 years old, her life has just begun but... you can't do this," she added.
Angelina has not commented on the subject.
It comes days after lawyer Marina Orlova, 35, claimed in a podcast that women are marrying Putin fighters to claim the £73,000 compensation when they are killed on his cannon fodder frontline.
Orlova said: "You find a man now who is serving [for Russia in the war], he dies, and you get 8 million rubles (£73,100).
“A lot of people are doing it now. A lot of women come to us with this 8 million, buy some cheap flat.
“It's a working scheme. It's a business plan."
A leading Putin propagandist said Orlova should be “publicly flogged”.
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Orlova was detained and could face up to seven years in jail under Putin's laws.
She insisted that this was merely “black humour”.
