Ukrainian Playboy Model Who Lost An Eye In Assassination Attempt Has Message For Putin Two Years Later

Ukranian model Iryna Bilotserkovets, who lost an eye just three days after the war with Russia began in 2022, has a message for Vladimir Putin on the two-year anniversary of when the first shots were fired. 

Enough is enough. 

"People are going crazy. They’re going off the rails," she told The Sun this week, adding that Putin was a cold-blooded killer. 

"Leaders of other countries shake hands with Putin, forgetting that this is a killer who has been waging a cold-blooded war for eight years."

Ukranian model Iryna Bilotserkovets fights back after losing an eye 

Your move, Vlad! Buckle up. 

For those who don't remember Iryna, her story is a humdinger. It's only right that she's back to firing off shots on the anniversary of when the war first started. 

Just three days into fighting back in 2022, Iryna's car was shot up in Kyiv. The attack was considered an assassination attempt by pro-Russian forces. 

Bilotserkovets, who is married to an aide to Vitali Klitschko – the former professional boxer turned mayor of Kyiv – lost an eye and suffered a broken jaw along with various other injuries. 

Her three children were also in the car with her, and all were miraculously unharmed.

She was taken to Germany where she underwent four operations. Following the procedures, she was left with a missing eye, a broken jaw, and scars throughout her body.

"An eye missing, tubes sticking out everywhere, hair shaved off from surgery. Stitches, scars, wounds everywhere; I was just Frankenstein’s monster," she told Playboy. "My jaw had shattered, like a twig. I no longer have a pretty face, but the rest of my body is beautiful."

Amen. 

In fact, Iryna came out of surgery in such good shape that she appeared on the cover of Playboy last summer. How's that for retaliation? 

You think you've taken out someone and then BAM, there she is on the cover of the country's first edition of Playboy since war broke out. 

That's how you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and fight back. 

Reflecting on that day two years ago, Bilotserkovets told The Sun that she was attempting to flee the country when all hell broke loose. 

"I didn’t notice anyone beforehand - but then I heard a shot from behind my car and assumed it was somewhere in the distance," she said. 

"The head doctor came to me and said everything that had happened to me, that my children were alive, that they were fine, that I had lost an eye, that I had a big, massive head injury, that part of my face was destroyed."