Vladimir Putin hiding secret mistress and children in Switzerland

Alina Kabaeva, an Olympic gold-winning rhythmic gymnast and rumored mistress of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is reportedly hiding in Switzerland with their young children.

“While Putin carries out his assault on the Ukraine, attacking innocent citizens and causing a refugee crisis, his family is holed up in a very private and very secure chalet somewhere in Switzerland – for now, at least,” a source told the New Post's gossip sheet, Page Six.

Kabaeva, who was once dubbed “Russia’s most flexible woman,” is one of the most decorated athletes in rhythmic gymnastics history, with 2 Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals and 21 European Championship medals.

The 38-year-old Kabaeva reportedly has had four children with Putin, 69 – which neither of them have publicly confirmed.

“Alina has two young boys and twin girls with Putin who were born in Switzerland,” the source said. “The kids all have Swiss passports, and I imagine she does also.”

Putin is famously secret about his private life.

“I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected,” he once said, reported PageSix. “I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.”

The Russian leader has fought hard to protect his children from media and the public, including his two adult daughters from his first marriage with Lyudmila Shkrebneva, a former flight attendant. Maria Tikhonova, 36, is reportedly an endocrinologist, and Katarina, 35, an administrator at Moscow State university an avid rock’n’roll dancer.

Katarina Tikhova, believed to be one of Putin's daughters from his previous marriage, competing at the 2013 World Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll Championships in Switzerland. 

Rumors have swirled around the pair since a 2008 story by a Russian newspaper claiming Putin had divorced his first wife and was set to marry Kabaeva, which resulted in the paper getting shut down. Putin and Shkrebneva divorced in 2013.

After her gymnastics career, she became a pro-Kremlin member of the Russian parliament. In 2014, she was appointed to run the state-owned National Media Group by the Kremlin.

The usually neutral Switzerland chose to take up sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, announcing Friday that it would adopt the new European Union sanctions and freeze the assets of anyone with ties to Putin.