A NANNY accused of beheading a child in her care says she did it to avenge Russia’s air strikes on Syria’s Muslims.

In a video posted on YouTube yesterday, Gulchekhra Bobokulova from Uzbekistan gave her first detailed explanation for the shocking crime.

“I took revenge against those who spilled blood,” Bobokulova told someone asking her questions off camera.

“Putin spilled blood, planes carried out bombings. Why are Muslims being killed? They also want to live.”

Bobokulova, 38, also said she wanted to go live in Syria but couldn’t afford it.

It’s not clear when the interview was filmed but the accused child killer wore identical clothes to those she wore in court on Wednesday.

A police source told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday the details of two men linked to an “international extremist group” had been found among Bobokulova’s contacts.

But publicly, investigators were quick to say Bobokulova was probably mentally ill and have not linked her to any terrorism-related crime.

A Kremlin spokesman quoted by Reuters said her remarks should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unwell.

“You need to regard anything that such a deranged woman says accordingly,” Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman, told reporters.

A burqa-clad Bobokulova allegedly decapitated the head of four-year-old Nastya Meshcheryakova at a Moscow flat before parading the severed head in the street.

The mother-of-three reportedly told police she was “haunted by voices” before killing the little girl, who had learning difficulties and could not walk.

She also reportedly claimed she was “driven mad” after discovering her husband in Uzbekistan had started a new family while she was working in Russia.

A police source said Bobokulova admitted to strangling the special-needs girl before using a kitchen knife to cut off her head. She then allegedly set the home alight before fleeing.