Mamdani-backed House hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier echoed Putin by blaming bullying US for Russian invasion of Ukraine

Far-left congressional hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier – already under fire over a slew of unhinged social media rants – castigated the US over Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine in a since-deleted post in which she echoed Moscow’s line.Chevalier, endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani against incumbent Rep.Adriano Espaillat, made the eyebrow-raising claim on Feb.

23, 2022, as Russian forces stormed into Ukraine and missiles bombarded Kyiv and other cities.“Cause the Cold War ended and we’ve been bullying Russia ever since,” Chevalier, then 28, raged at a user who asked why the US was “involved” in the conflict.“Also war is lucrative for these sociopaths,” she added.The exchange was first reported by Politico and is still available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.A spokesperson for Chevalier — who hopes to represent Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx by winning the June 23 primary– refused to explain to Politico who she was branding “sociopaths.”A rep for Chevalier did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. However, her comments mirrored talking points repeatedly pushed by Russian President Vladimir Putin before and during the four-plus-year-old war.In April 2021, Putin raged in a Moscow speech: “Some countries have developed a nasty habit of bullying Russian for any reason or without any reason at all.”The Kremlin has also blamed the post-Cold War growth of the NATO alliance for its belligerence, saying the West is infringing on historically Russian territory.Chevalier has been endorsed by Mamdani despite a series of offensive unearthed social media posts that include calling Joe Biden a “rapist” and “war criminal” during the 2020 presidential election and referring to the US as a “f—ing disgrace.”She also gleefully posted about wiping her dirty hands on the American flag and described interracial relationships involving white females as “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.Chevalier – ...