A former Miss Grand Ukraine beauty queen has joined her country’s armed forces to combat the invading Russian army.
Anastasiia Lenna has been using her Instagram story, where she has 40,000 followers, to rally support for the war-torn nation.
Anastasiia, who won the national beauty pageant in 2015 aged 24, warned Russian troops: “Everyone who crossed the Ukrainian border with the intent to invade will be killed!”
The model previously worked across Turkey as a public relations manager, the Daily Star has reported.
She has often posted photos of herself on Instagram in full military gear in wooded arenas and indoor training grounds.
Since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine, Anastasiia has been sharing patriotic content online, as well as her own captions to photos of war.
One post expressed her pride in Ukraine’s resistance so far, which has seen Russia lose more men than Putin expected, according to intelligence reports.
Anastasiia said: “Our army is fighting in such a way that NATO should apply for entry into Ukraine.”
She also shared a plea from world champion boxer Usyk Oleksandr who appealed to his Russian social media followers to not send loved ones into battle with Ukraine.
Anastasiia, a marketing and management graduate from Slavistik University in Kyiv, has called on her fellow Ukrainians to remove all road signs to make it harder for invading soldiers to navigate.
A translation of her call to action reads: “Dismantling road signs on all roads of the country. The enemy has a pathetic connection, they don’t orientate the terrain. Let’s help them go straight to hell.
“Ukravtodor calls on all road organisations, territorial communities, local authorities to immediately start dismantling road signs nearby.”
Among her numerous Instagram stories shared on Saturday was one encouraging followers to donate to the Ukrainian army.
She reminded her followers to stick to Kyiv’s curfew on Saturday evening, requiring the city’s streets to be “vacated urgently”.
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