A nine-year-old Austrian girl called Sophia received an unexpected Christmas present after a helium balloon she sent to Santa Claus ended up in a remote mountain village in Russia’s North Caucasus.

Amin Adzhiev, a farmer in Russia’s republic of Karachay-Cherkess found the balloon with a letter attached to it on his land in mid-December.

Sophia, from Oberndorf bei Salzburg on the outskirts of Salzburg, told Santa that she was hoping to receive a princess dress, a scarf and a scooter for Christmas, along with “lots of love for the whole world” so people “don’t argue” as much anymore.