New Delhi: Former Miss Ukraine Anastasiia Lenna in her Instagram message said that she had joined the country’s resistance against Russian troops. Lenna, who won the Miss Ukraine competition in 2015, posted an image of herself on Instagram.

She have taken up arms to fight off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army with long queues of citizens waiting to be issued weapons at recruitment centres in Kyiv, said media reports. She works as a public relations manager in Turkey, posted the image alongside two hash tags 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 weapons in wooded arenas and indoor training grounds.