A Ukrainian official who swapped sides when Russia annexed Crimea has been fired by Vladimir Putin after criticising his war and the ‘Z’ symbol.
Natalia Poklonskaya, dubbed the "Iron Princess of Crimea", was appointed Prosecutor-General of Crimea in 2014 at the age of 33 and then was appointed as a loyalist MP in Moscow.
She was poised to become a Russian ambassador but instead was appointed to Rossotrudnichestvo, the body which seeks to protest the rights of Russians abroad.
