Russia-Ukraine war: who is Lev Uliesov, the Ukrainian supermodel now an army paramedic

“Lev Ulisov, Ukrainian international supermodelwho worked with Givenchy and Prada, did not hesitate when his country was invaded by the terrorist state, “tweeted the defense ministry of Volodimir Zelensky.

Uliesov turned 21 on March 22, less than a month after Vladimir Putin’s troops invaded the land where he was born and from which he exported his figure to the world through the world’s most important brands.

Fifteen days ago he had said The sun that Vladimir Putin is an “old son of a bitch”. In his nets him, while practicing with his machine gun, he wrote: “Why mourn death? It’s just death, dying is not in vain.”

Skinny, almost lanky, along with his 1.86 meters, his black hair and blue eyes, he built his career across the catwalks and made his breakthrough in 2019 when he closed the famous Prada menswear show in Milan.

He worked on the lookbooks of Givenchy and Berluti and appeared on the pages of L’Uomo Vogue. But he doesn’t brag about his many successes. “There is always room to grow, there is always the sky above the sky,” he says, as reproduced by the magazine fashion.

Today her days pass in a diametrically opposite way to her previous life between flashes, models, stylists and glamor.

Bearded, frowning and dressed as a soldier, he does not pose for a new photographic production, but experience war from within.

“He joined the Ukrainian Navy and now works as a paramedic. Ukraine is the homeland of the strongest people in the world, “continues the publication of the Ukrainian Defense portfolio on social networks, where Uliesov also changed the tone of his publications.

Uliesov was about to become a psychologist, but was hampered first by his modeling career and now by the war. These days he is busy providing first aid and helping with the evacuation. “That kind of thing, you know,” he dismissed.

The prestigious fashion magazine claims that the model turned paramedic has barely stayed in Ukraine for the past four years.

He was usually home for a month or two and worked overseas for the rest of the year.

He returned from Korea shortly before the war. “Modelar is when you don’t have a fixed place to stayyou are always everywhere and everywhere, “he says.

On February 24, the day the first bombs fell on his country, Uliesov was in his hometown of Brovary, north of Kievv.

At 5 am two local military bases were hit by cruise missiles. People were killed and injured. In the afternoon, the city was again attacked by the Russian armed forces.

Uliesov immediately understood what he had to do. With the same character and determination with which he exhibited his image of him for the benefit of large companies, he collected his belongings and left them at his family home on the outskirts of the city.

He tried to volunteer as a combat doctor, but his training was insufficient, as was the case with many of the Ukrainian forces’ shelters which, in the midst of the conflict, are trained by NATO peers.

However, his determination was again decisive and he was accepted: he enlisted in the defense forces of the territory. The basics of first aid medical has learned on the fly. On the catwalk of the war.

He assures that his family is worried about him, but supports his decision. I am in Ukraine, still safe, she points out.

“Now the whole world is at war. The war is in the media, it is in the trenches, it has affected our emotions and our mental health. We are all fighting now.”

He does not want to talk about his current life and claims that he does not work now, he works.

“I am a soldier, we are defenders. We are fine”, even if he admits that the most difficult thing is “to control the emotions”, which several times a photographer has asked him to dominate in order to win another battle, that of the film industry. fashion.

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