Deranged Putin stooges troll Princess Kate over warped conspiracies & bizarrely accuse UK of meddling in sham election

VLADIMIR Putin’s puppet officials are trolling Princess Kate over wild conspiracies about her circling online.

It comes amid fears the tyrant’s stooges are fuelling hateful claims about the British Royals after bizarrely accusing the UK of meddling in Russia‘s sham election.

Kensington Palace said Kate, 42, would be away from public duties until April as she recovers from abdominal surgery.

But spiteful speculation about the mum-of-three has turned into a frenzy on social media in recent weeks as online trolls share crazy conspiracy theories.

Hurtful warped rumours about the princess have since been peddled by Russian outlets – despite The Sun exclusively publishing a video of the royal beaming as she walked with Prince William at the weekend.

Putin’s foreign ministry lackeys have now waded into speculation by claiming a “crisis of power is clearly brewing” in the UK as they ridiculously accused the UK of intervening in Russia’s rigged election.

The UK’s chargé d’affaires in Moscow Tom Dodd was called into the Russian Foreign Ministry for a rap over alleged interference in the Kremlin presidential election – inevitably won by Putin.

Russian officials hit out at “unacceptable propaganda publications by British diplomatic missions in our country during the election for Russian president”.

They claimed the “propaganda” was “presented in a poster style and geared toward disrupting the electoral process in Russia’s new territories”.

It’s thought the officials were referring to social media messages stressing  Russia had “no legal grounds” for holding elections in occupied Ukrainian territory.

One posted by Britain’s consul general in Yekaterinburg Ameer Kotecha said: “All of them are part of Ukraine, and holding elections here will not make these territories Russian.”

Russia’s foreign ministry branded such messages a “flagrant violation” of the role of diplomats.

It said: “We stressed the absolute inadmissibility of such activities, which are seen as interference in Russia’s domestic affairs and a hostile attempt at exerting pressure on the independent electoral system in our country and influencing the election results.

“Despite the West’s aggressive attempts to discredit the presidential election in Russia, its outcome vividly demonstrated the unprecedented union of the Russian people who support the incumbent head of state and his policy.”

In a snide remark about rumours, it added: “It was recommended that the embassy should better focus on the situation in the United Kingdom where a crisis of power is clearly brewing.”

Meanwhile, senior Russian foreign ministry official Maria Zakharova has also trolled Kate over a photo released for Mother’s Day that appeared edited.

Kate soon apologised after admitting to adjusting the image – but cruel social media trolls have used it to spark ludicrous conspiracy theories.

Zakharova – spokeswoman for Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov -posted: “It turned out that previous photographs of the English royal family are also photomontages.

“Do you now understand how the whole story with the Skripals was concocted in London?”

Zakharova implied British fakery was behind the poisoning with nerve agent Novichok of turncoat GRU agent Sergei Skripal who had secretly spied for Britain before living in exile in Salisbury, and his daughter Yulia in 2018.

Britain insists the incident – which led to the murder of local woman Dawn Sturgess – was an assassination bid carried out by the GRU, Russian military intelligence. 

The Russian official’s comments come after a top expert warned Putin’s troll farms could be fuelling hateful conspiracy theories against the Royals in a bid to spark chaos.

Ex-White House information chief Theresa Payton says the wild theories about The King and Princess Kate are likely a result of Kremlin propaganda.

And she added it is no coincidence that they have stepped up after Charles spoke in support of Ukraine a few weeks ago.

Payton warned Putin, 71, is leveraging disinformation and propaganda from his “authoritarian playbook” in an attempt to “sow confusion and concern among the public.