Russian soldiers have been flicking through Tinder looking for romance with Ukrainian women - as the US says an invasion is imminent, it has been reported.
Shocked women in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian city that appears to be the first target for a Russian assault on the country lying just 50 miles from Vladimir Putin’s army, claim they have been inundated with messages.
Many soldiers also reportedly gave away their strategic positions with pics that they sent out looking for love.
There have been reports of dozens of Russians including an Andrei, Alexander, Gregory and Michail all revealing their profiles as they look to attract local women, according to The Sun.
Dasha Synelnikova has told how she has started to get plenty of interest on Tinder from enemy troops when she changed her location to Kharkiv.
The 33-year-old told The Sun that she lived in Kyiv but said that when she moved her location to the city in eastern Ukraine there were plenty of pics of soldiers looking “tough and cool”.
She said: “One muscular guy posed up trying to look sexy in bed posing with his pistol. Another was in full Russian combat gear and others just showed off in tight stripy vests.
“I didn’t find any of them attractive and would never consider sleeping with the enemy. I automatically swiped left to reject them, but there were so many I got curious and got into a message exchange.”
She told how she allegedly exchanged messages with a Russian called Andrei, 31, who was posing with his Kalashnikov gun.
In a chat Andrei said that he was 80 kilometres from Kharkiv and would love to visit but Russian men haven’t been welcome since 2014.
He told her how he would love to visit Europe but it was difficult to get a visa while giving an “oops” sign when Dasha asked if he was a soldier.
There were many similar chats on the dating app as Dasha was flooded with messages.
Dasha said: “These guys are just the same as anyone else on Tinder — they want love or companionship. So it’s kind of hard to imagine that they could be coming here to attack us. I hope it won’t happen.”
Satellite imagery taken on Wednesday showed new deployments in western Russia, many of them within 10 miles of the border with Ukraine and less than 50 miles from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a US company Maxar said.
The images showed field deployment, military convoys, artillery and armoured personnel carriers with support equipment and troops.
