The former Miss Ukraine, Anastasiia Lenna, was slammed for posing on her Instagram account for posing with an airsoft rifle. The Kyiv-born beauty explained that users needed to ‘Google airsoft guns’ and explained that she was an avid player. Her comments came in response to the media misleading the world claiming that she had joined the fight while petty social media users dragged the beauty queen for ‘promoting propaganda’.
News18 reported Monday that though initial reports claimed Lenna had “joined the military to fight against the Russian invasion,” it now “seems that she is holding an airsoft gun.”
It’s also unclear if Lenna is actually fighting. A more recent post from the beauty queen emphasized that she doesn’t “do any propaganda except showing that our woman of Ukraine – strong, confident and powerful.”
“I AM NOT A MILITARY, JUST A HUMAN,” another post said. “Due current situation I want to talk!”
“I am not a military, just a woman, just normal human,” she continued. “Just a person, like all people of my country. I am also a airsoft player for years. … All pictures in my profile to inspire people. I had a normal life just on Wednesday, like millions people.”
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Russian artillery and rocket fire have cut off essentials like electricity, medicine, water and heat to many Ukrainian communities, and turned a growing number of offices, homes, businesses and vehicles to crumpled, burning hulks. Counts of civilian deaths are rising, and around the country, people are sheltering in basements and tunnels as explosions shake the ground above them.
Ukrainian people are taking shelter in subways and this is only the second week of the Russian invasion. It’s unclear at this time if Lenna is among the evacuees or trapped in the war-ridden country.