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Ukraine drops leaflets in Russia with NUDES warning Putin’s troops to surrender or die as $14m chopper ‘downed by drone’
The bizarre leaflets come as Kyiv launches the biggest attack on Russian territory in months
UKRAINE has bizarrely dropped leaflets inside Russia with naked women on in a bid to get Putin's troops to surrender - or risk death.
It comes as state of emergency has been declared in Russia's Kursk region after brave Ukraine made a shock invasion.
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Social media users were left dumbfounded after pics of "motivational leaflets" scattered over Kursk emerged featuring a soldier and a naked woman.
The message on the bizarre nude leaflets reportedly translate to: "The wife of your brigade commander is waiting for you in the banya."
Banya is a traditional Russian steam sauna.
The odd message could be implying that as ordinary soldiers are dying for Putin, commanders and their families are enjoying themselves away from the frontline.
The other with the dead soldier on apparently says: "Soldier of the 25th brigade.
"Choose life. Surrender."
The leaflets also give instructions on "how to surrender" as well as contact details in an attempt to make further advances into the region.
Confused commenters on X, formerly Twitter, questioned why these leaflets would have been dropped.
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One said: "In the photos, is the left one a dead soldier with the message don't end up like this?
"Is the idea with the naked woman that if you live, you still get to enjoy life?
"I doubt Ukraine is promising a beautiful woman to every solder who surrenders..."
The bizarre leaflets come as Kyiv launches the biggest attack on Russian territory in months.
In a separate social media post, a video shows Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) M2 striking a Russian Mi-28 helicopter.
Footage shows the SBU hammer into the chopper before the footage dramatically goes static.
There are reports that the $14 million chopper was successfully shot down by Ukraine drones.
But others claim that only the helicopter's tail was damaged and the pilot was able to land.
A local state of emergency was introduced in Kursk on Wednesday evening - 36 hours after Ukrainian soldiers, tanks and armoured vehicles stormed into the western border region.
Several thousand were evacuated from the area amid Kyiv's banging offensive where four were killed, reports claim.
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Complaints are swirling that Putin's armed and security forces have failed to protect residents.
The Institute for the Study of War says Kyiv has advanced by a whopping six miles in what's been classed as the most serious border incursion of the war.
A close Putin crony, ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, today lashed out at Ukraine for the incursion - which shocked Moscow - and demanded Russia respond by crushing Ukraine.
It was now “necessary” to “mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy”, and stage a total invasion, he said.
“From now on, the (war) must acquire an openly extraterritorial character.
“This is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the (Ukrainian) Nazis.
“We can and must go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odesa, to Kharkiv, to Dnipro, to Mykolaiv (all cities now held by Ukraine).
“There should be no restrictions in the sense of some borders of the Ukrainian Reich recognised by anyone.
“And now we can and must talk about this openly, without embarrassment.
“Let everyone, including the English b*******, realise this: we will stop only when we consider it acceptable and beneficial for ourselves.”
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops along with dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles launched the bold attack on Tuesday night.
Putin lashed out on Wednesday, raging against Ukraine's "large-scale provocation" in the border region of Kursk.
Russian military boss General Valery Gerasimov was forced to face the despot in a meeting and admit how a significant portion of territory in the region had been lost.
Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Russia's Kursk Oblast, claimed that Ukrainian forces stormed into the Sudzha and Korenevo districts of Kursk Oblast.
Telegram channels with links to Russia's Defence Ministry said Ukrainian forces captured the villages of Nikolaevo-Darino, Sverdlikovo and Oleshnya - and have secured strong footholds in these border areas.
The farthest village claimed to have been captured is some four kilometres inside Russia from the international border.
Other reports claim Ukrainian troops have also advanced into Gogolevka and Goncharovka inside Russia.
Ukraine has yet to comment on these major advances.
Fighting is focused on small villages across the lightly guarded frontier, with Russia said to be evacuating civilians.
Footage posted of the attacks on social media showed fighter jets screaming low over a highway, destroyed Russian helicopters, and burnt-out trucks.
The valiant eastern European nation also destroyed two Russian attack helicopters yesterday, a Ka-52 "Alligator" and a Mi-28 "Havoc" downed by an FPV drone.
Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed at first the attack had been repelled in a statement on Telegram, only for it to later scrub the line.
Moscow, which daily bombards Ukrainian civilians and territory, raged against a “terrorist attack”.
A humiliated Putin blasted the attack on the Kursk region as a "major provocation".
The Russian Army released footage of strikes on the advancing Ukrainian vehicles, including the destruction of a surface-to-air missile system inside Ukraine.
The latest cross-border offence is being seen as Kyiv's biggest attack on Russian territory in months.
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It is already known that Ukraine is in control of the key Sudzha gas metering station, which is used as a gas transit to Europe through Ukraine.
Russia has sent a general to the new war zone in Kursk region - Major-General Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat (Chechen) special forces - who vowed to fight back and defeat the Ukrainians.
Why does Ukraine launch cross-border strikes on Russia?
By James Halpin, Foreign News Reporter
Ukraine has attacked Russia itself a number of times since Russia invaded their neighbour in February 2022.
The strikes have included both ground assaults with tanks and troops, and also by using long-range missiles.
In March, Ukraine-supporting rebels from the Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL), Siberian Battalion (SB) and Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) launched a two-pronged assault.
In May last year, the Free Russia Legion attacked the country as they sought to "build a free Russia".
None of the incursions have so far been able to hold any land, with the invaders being beaten back or retreating.
Ultimately, they seek to stretch Russian forces, strike Russia in unprotected areas, and destroy critical infrastructure like logistics hubs, ammunition depots, or disrupt Russian events.
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