![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ukraine-politicians-wife-who-survived-assassination-poses-for-playboy-in-metal-bikini/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_Iryna-Bilotserkovets.jpg&description=Iryna Bilotserkovets, a model and TV presenter, has appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine wearing an eyepatch and a metal bikini after surviving an attempt on her life The wife of a Ukrainian politician who survived a suspected assassination attempt is Playboy's cover girl for the first edition to be printed since war broke out. Iryna Bilotserkovets, a model and TV presenter, is seen on the cover wearing an eyepatch and a metal bikini. Just three days after Russia first invaded Ukraine, Iryna's car was struck by bullets in the capital Kyiv. As the wife of a politician who is an aide to Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, it has been interpreted as an assassination attempt by pro-Russian forces. She was rushed over the border to a hospital in Berlin, where she underwent months of emergency treatment and reconstructive surgery. Speaking to the magazine about the first time she saw herself in a mirror after treatment, she said: "An eye missing, tubes sticking out everywhere, hair shaved off from surgery. Stitches, scars, wounds everywhere; I was just Frankenstein's monster. My jaw had shattered, like a twig." She added: 'I no longer have a pretty face, but the rest of my body is beautiful." It was February 26, 2022, when Iryna was driving her three children towards their family home in a Kyiv neighbourhood when her car was hit by gunfire. She said in the aftermath of the attack that all she remembered was a strong pain in her head. She had to undergo four operations and was left with a missing eye, a broken jaw, and scars over her body. She told Playboy: "It was not a question of preserving my beauty; it was a question of whether I would live or not. Doctors in Ukraine said I was probably going to die. I didn't agree, and neither did my husband." Iryna was featured in the magazine as one of the heroines of its "Women Stay Strong" edition, which is "dedicated to the resilience of Ukrainian women who have been injured during the war, but who have not lost their thir){kind=link}
Iryna Bilotserkovets, a model and TV presenter, has appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine wearing an eyepatch and a metal bikini after surviving an attempt on her life
The wife of a Ukrainian politician who survived a suspected assassination attempt is Playboy’s cover girl for the first edition to be printed since war broke out.
Iryna Bilotserkovets, a model and TV presenter, is seen on the cover wearing an eyepatch and a metal bikini. Just three days after Russia first invaded Ukraine, Iryna’s car was struck by bullets in the capital Kyiv. As the wife of a politician who is an aide to Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, it has been interpreted as an assassination attempt by pro-Russian forces. She was rushed over the border to a hospital in Berlin, where she underwent months of emergency treatment and reconstructive surgery.
Speaking to the magazine about the first time she saw herself in a mirror after treatment, she said: “An eye missing, tubes sticking out everywhere, hair shaved off from surgery. Stitches, scars, wounds everywhere; I was just Frankenstein’s monster. My jaw had shattered, like a twig.” She added: “I no longer have a pretty face, but the rest of my body is beautiful.”
It was February 26, 2022, when Iryna was driving her three children towards their family home in a Kyiv neighbourhood when her car was hit by gunfire. She said in the aftermath of the attack that all she remembered was a strong pain in her head. She had to undergo four operations and was left with a missing eye, a broken jaw, and scars over her body.