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James Bond villain but she was actually a real life spy dispatched by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin to infiltrate America - before becoming a sultry Maxim magazine covergirl.The super-glamourous, flame-haired femme fatale from Russia posed as an American in the US to feed information back to her homeland.And she showed just how she was able to charm her way to hearts of her targets when dressed in Agent Provocateur lingerie on the front cover of a leading men's magazine and named one of Russia's 100 most sexiest women.These days, Anna is a TV host and celebrity with an army of followers on social media, but she first came to attention when her cover was blown as a Kremlin spy in America.It certainly sounds like the stuff of TV fiction, but Chapman, from Volgograd, was part of a secretive program tasked with conducting operations inside the United States.She was born Anna Kushchenko and gained an economics degree from Moscow University before she met her future husband Alex Chapman in London in 2001.After the couple married Chapman gained a British passport and worked at a bank before moving to New York, but the marriage was not to last and in 2006 the pair divorced.In 2018 it was reported that Alex had died two years previously with his family not wishing to share the details of his death but insisting it was nothing suspicious.Chapman’s secretive work in the US was dubbed The Illegals Program by the Department of Justice and its discovery was one of the biggest spy rings found on American soil.It was alleged that while she was active she attempted to seduce a cabinet member of the Obama administration and came very close to fulfilling her task.Had it been successful, Chapman could have gained access to highly sensitive

Mia Khalifa has shared a clip of Russia's ambassador to Poland get a serious soaking of red paint from a furious member of public. The former adult actress who has built a massive social media and OnlyFans following, re-posted to her 28 million Instagram followers a humiliating video of Sergey Andreyev.

Russia’s “strongman” leader Vladimir Putin looked like a “little old man feeling the cold” as he huddled under a blanket during Moscow’s Victory Day parade, a leading body language expert has said. Today’s Victory Day event has been the most closely-watched in many years due to the situation in Ukraine, and many observers raised concerns over the Russian leader’s appearance.

As Russian president Vladimir Putin was preparing to address the nation Monday morning during the annual Victory Day parade commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, local television menus were reportedly hacked with program descriptions on smart TVs replaced by a message reading, “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands. TV and the authorities are lying. No to war.”

Ukraine has killed two people and another 60 are feared dead beneath the rubble.Russian forces shelled the village of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region on Saturday afternoon which set a school on fire as about 90 people used it for shelter.Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said 30 people were rescued from the flames but confirmed two lifeless bodies were found and 60 more people were yet to make it out of the burning debris alive.Belarus-based media outlet, Nexta, reported that those killed were children however officials in Ukraine have not backed the claims.Gaidai wrote in a Telegram post: "The fire was extinguished after nearly four hours, then the rubble was cleared, and, unfortunately, the bodies of two people were found. Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings."The number of casualties is due to Vladimir Putin's army dropping a bomb on the exact building where "almost the whole village was hiding".In the nearby village of Shypilovo, 11 people are thought to have been trapped in the rubble of a destroyed house by more Russian shelling, Mr Gaidai said.The Russian military has been accused of committing war crimes for its persistent targeting of areas packed with civilian such as hospitals and schools, but Moscow has rejected the allegations.Since sending tanks into Ukraine on February 24, thousands of Ukrainians have been killed and 5 million have fled abroad as thriving cities are razed to the ground.

Russian forces known as the Wagner Group were last night accused of opening fire and shooting innocent civilians attempting to flee their town. The infamous division known as the Wagner Group are a team of mercenaries formed by Vladimir Putin and have been known to operate as “death squads” in intense street fighting in Ukraine.

Russian facilities on Snake Island in the Black Sea that was captured on film. According to the Ukraine Weapons Tracker, two fighter jets struck during the daring raid on the strategic land mass - known as Zmiinyi Island - some 80 miles south of the port of Odessa.

Russian world champion who won an international tank warfare competition was sent into real-life battle by Vladimir Putin – only to be killed by Ukrainian fighters.Bato Basanov took part in war games for top Russian officials and impressively shot without missing a single target at speeds of 50mph in training. The 25-year-old corporal was previously hailed for "glorifying Russia” as part of his efforts in the tank biathlon.

Vladimir Putin looks set to use the Russian public holiday - marking the country's victory over Nazi Germany and the end of WW2 in Europe - to send a warning to the West by showing off the thermonuclear RS-24 Yars ballistic missile.Weighing 49.6 tonnes, the powerful missile is a weapon of mass destruction that experts believe can carry up to 10 warheads, and is capable of striking London or New York within minutes by travelling at a speed of 24,500km/hr. The nuclear missile was driven past rows of armed guards on a 16-wheeler vehicle on Saturday's rehearsal for the actual Victory Day parade on Monday, followed closely by several Iskander-M missile launchers.

Vladimir Putin's plans to ramp up efforts to invade Ukraine has been met with fierce push back from Ukrainian forces, with Russian troops suffering huge casualties over the past weeks.Now, Putin has been hit with another major blow after the Ukraine Security Service reportedly captured 11 Russian snipers, who had been firing on Ukrainian troops from various positions.The capture was reported by independent Ukrainian media service Hromadske Int, which tweeted: "Security Service informed of daily special operations throughout Ukraine. During such an operation in Kharkiv Oblast, 11 Russian snipers were captured who fired on Ukrainian positions, @ServiceSsu reported."The tweet added that 140 enemy groups were eliminated with 4,000 collaborators also being exposed.In another tweet, the Ukraine Security Service (@ServiceSsu) wrote: "The heroic resistance of Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkiv region demoralised the enemy.

Vladimir Putin's superyacht dream appears to have sunk after a luxury vessel said to be owned by the Russian president was set to be seized by Italian authorities. The $700 million (£570 million) Scheherazade, which is more than 450ft long and boasts spas, "countless" swimming pools, a sauna, theatre, ballrooms, gym and two helicopter landing pads - plus a hospital - has been recommended for impoundment as part of sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin by creating an application to show users live updates of how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war with their country's forces.And to add insult to injury, the name of the app makes reference to a now iconic quote made famous when a small Ukrainian unit on Snake Island told a Russian warship to "f*** off" when offered safe passage in return for their surrender.The app, which the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine created in concert with Alty, a Ukrainian tech company, is called “Russian ship, go f*** yourself".Leonid Goriev, the CEO of Alty, said the company created the app to help bring Ukraine a victory sooner.“We were inspired by the daily work of the specialists of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, who diligently formulated information on the damage of enemy personnel and the Russian Federation technology in their infographics,” Gorev said in a statement shared by the Ukrainian military. “Therefore, on a volunteer basis, we created a handy app with a set of beautiful widgets to track the occupant's losses and bring our victory closer.”Approximately 24,700 Russian troops have died since the beginning of the war, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Thursday, May 5.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is running out of missiles as he desperately tries to secure victory in Ukraine, according to the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin reckons that Putin's invasion is proving far tougher than he expected, taking a greater toll on his supplies than the Russians thought it would.He also claimed that 25% of Russian forces have already been wiped out and that they are "struggling" in their fight for the Donbass region in the East.He told TalkTV: "He potentially has a problem, because the rate of expenditure and the toughness of the fight is totally different to the one that he perceived on the 24th of February."I think there are several wars going on.

Playboy model who Vladimir Putin once sacked for nude snaps has moaned Russia's war on Ukraine cancelled her birthday plans. Anna Anufrieva was hoping to celebrate her 30th birthday away from her native Tyumen, Siberia but has instead been forced to find a more local alternative.The former civil servant was left homeless in 2019 when bosses saw racy photos she sent to Playboy magazine and fired her from a 'secret' day job. Since the stressful nightmare she found herself in, Anna has shown off to her 7,000 Instagram followers exotic holiday photos including a sun-drenched trip to Cuba.

Vladimir Putin has been left with yet another disaster on his hands after a 34,000sqm building went up in flames after a large explosion.The explosion and subsequent fire was captured on video in the Bogorodsky region, East of the Russian capital, Moscow, where images were captured of the building going up in flames.The fire can be seen pouring out of a huge industrial storage unit, which is believed to house paper and cardboard products for a pro-Kremlin publishing house.Publishing house Prosveshchenie is said to have used the location to store its printed materials, with the building rocked by an explosion earlier this morning.Eastern European media platform NextaTV took to Twitter and shared footage of the blast, which showed huge clouds of smoke billowing from the location.In the tweet, they said: "There is a large fire at the warehouse of the Pro-Kemlin 'Prosveshchenie' publishing house near Moscow. Almost 34 thousand square metres are burning."Around midnight a hanger in Bogorodskoe district, where printed materials were stored, burst into flames."Emergency services on the scene said there was a partial collapse of the burning warehouse as well as an immediate danger to the neighbouring warehouse located 10 metres away.Firefighters eventually managed to bring the blaze under control, Newsweek reports, and it is unclear yet if there were any casualties due to the explosion and fire.

Russian officers are said to be in disarray after Vladimir Putin has taken direct control of the military campaign in Ukraine after he allegedly lost patience with top brass. A senior EU source has said that the Russian President has "now taken day-to-day control of the conflict," leaving Russian officers in Ukraine shocked.Putin is said to have given his officers an ambitious new goal and series of war demands that must be fulfilled before the Victory Day celebrations, scheduled for May 9.Orders insist that Russian forces must capture and occupy the city of Kryvyi Rih, the birthplace of Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Should Kryvyi Rih fall to Russian forces, it is said that Putin would be given a major boost in war propaganda, marking the invasion of Zelensky's birthplace.But Russian officers are said to have been left in dismay at the prospect of having to seize the city before Victory Day.

increasing threat of a nuclear strike, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin ratchets up the rhetoric over UK support of the resistance in Ukraine.Faced with the stark reality of nuclear war, it’s hard to know how any of us would react, but one team of scientists has a pretty good idea. Researchers from the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech in the US have created detailed models of populations around the world, feeding in data from mobile phones, satellites and social media to build “synthetic populations” that behave just like the real thing.The models aren’t based on any specific person, but on groups of “average people” that behave in the same way real populations do.“They’re not you, they’re not me, they’re people in aggregate,” explains researcher Chris Barrett.

Russia continue to spew rhetoric about the "likely" launch of a nuclear World War 3, the country continues to build and test terrifying weapons of mass destruction.Earlier this month the Russian leader tested its international continental ballistic missile, dubbed "Satan II" by Natio, the Sarmat is an advanced weapons delivery system capable of hitting anywhere in Europe or US.The terrifying beast of a weapon can travel over 11,000 miles and deliver 10 tonnes of explosives, reaching terrifying speeds of Mach 20, Metro reports.The speed of sound is Mach 1 – making its statistics a horrifying prospect. Back in 2018, Vladimir Putin gave one of his most highly aggressive and frightening speeches of his time in power so far.He spoke of working on several top-secret weapons projects which he claimed would give the country an upper hand against Nato.Some details of these weapons have leaked, whether this was intentional or not is unclear, but they are frightening nonetheless.

Ukraine while on Instagram Live was blown to pieces while broadcasting to his followers.The young soldier was apparently bragging about his column's success for the day as he casually strolled through an active warzone, speaking to his camera.Moments later a large explosion abruptly halts the video - and reportedly takes the soldier's life. "Our main goal has been completed at A+, we got on only 3 x 300 (wounded)," a caption along with the video reads, posted on Reddit.

Putin is set to undergo cancer surgery in the "near future". The General SVR Telegram channel first raised issues of Putin’s health — including abdominal cancer and Parkinson’s — some 18 months ago.

Chinese tyres ­are hampering ­ Russia’s war in Ukraine – because trucks keep getting bogged down in mud. Corrupt Russian generals ­ordered the dodgy tyres to be ­fitted to their armoured vehicles, defence chiefs believe.But the scam has led to lorries and other heavy ­vehicles becoming stuck in churned-up ground.The tyres are made from poor quality rubber and have a tread which is not able to gain enough grip on mud.