Dmitry Peskov thought it over and then decided to tell us that he was not sailing on a yacht costing 26 million a week, but was quietly sitting in a hotel in Sicily.

His loyal Mitvol, who in the watch scandal also came up with the most ridiculous excuse — that Peskov had merely been given the watch to wear — for some reason publishes photos of Dmitry Yakubovsky on that very yacht.

And once again, only one thing can be said: from a man whose profession is to lie every day, we expected greater skill in this field.

This is even worse than “they just gave him the watch to wear.”

Let’s suppose Peskov’s stepdaughter simply found a Maltese Falcon yacht robe lying in the street, and then, purely by chance, had her photo taken in it on some other yacht.

Then what is he going to do about Peskov’s biological daughter, who took photos in places that exactly match the Maltese Falcon’s route?

Why, if you really were in a hotel in Sicily the whole time, would you hurriedly delete the geotags from Navka’s daughter’s photos?

We suggest that Dmitry Peskov put forward a new version: we were simply in a hotel in Sicily, destroying banned imported food (a reference to Russia’s policy of destroying food covered by counter-sanctions), when a sudden tornado carried off our children’s iPhones, after which an infernal whirlwind swept them around Capri and took several photos of girls who looked like ours, but were actually different.

Update: Look how brilliant this is. I would never have thought of it. Someone simply compared photos of Peskov’s biological daughter with the yacht’s promotional video. Now there is no doubt that she, too, was on the Maltese Falcon:

Update 2. From the comments.

Watch the yacht’s promotional video at 1:34

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and compare it with

Update 3.

And also take a look at the caption to the Instagram photo of people vacationing on the neighboring yacht. It was posted a few hours before my post:

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