Among the volunteers who rushed to take up arms to fend off Vladimir Putin’s army in Kyiv is the former Miss Ukraine Anastasiia Lenna. Lenna, who won the crown in 2015, posted an image of herself on Instagram as she announced she had joined the resistance movements.
A public relations manager in Turkey, she posted the image alongside two hashtags – stand with Ukraine and hands off Ukraine. It is not the first time she has been pictured with a gun and previous posts appear to show her training with a gun in wooded arenas and indoor training grounds. The other volunteers included a man with a prosthetic leg and a young couple who brought forward their wedding from May to tie the knot before joining the civil defence force the next day.
