Defiant Ukrainians stick two fingers up to Putin as they strip to bikinis & enjoy cocktails at beach club near frontline

By Jerome Starkey

DEFIANT Ukrainians stuck two fingers up to Putin by enjoying a slice of normal life at a beach club.

Children slid down water slides and adults sipped cocktails in the scorching sunshine by the Dnipro river.

Defiant Ukrainians stuck two fingers up to Putin by enjoying a slice of normal life at a beach club – which is just a short drive from the frontline
Dan Charity

Children slid down water slides and adults sipped cocktails and bathed in the scorching sunshine by the Dnipro river[/caption]

Dan Charity

Ukrainian gun boats patrol the nearby Dnipro river[/caption]

The summer high-jinks seemed a world away from the war — although the spot is only a short drive from the frontline.

Civilian Oleksii, 42, savoured a beer by the pool and said: “We can’t go to the seaside because the sea is occupied.

“But in the pool, with cold beer and beautiful girls, we can forget we are in a war zone.

“It gives you a chance to reset your mind.”

It came as Ukraine said it foiled a plot to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky in an airstrike.

The SBU intelligence service said it had arrested a woman accused of trying to uncover the Ukrainian leader’s movements and share them with the FSB — the Russian intelligence service.

Meanwhile, Russia claimed its troops had advanced two miles in three days, along the Kupiansk front in north-eastern Ukraine.

AP

The scenes came as Ukraine said it foiled a plot to kill President Zelensky in an airstrike – which was linked to Putin’s intelligence service[/caption]

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