She’s a mom on a mission.
This assault-rifle-toting blonde patrolled the grounds outside an eastern Ukraine kindergarten Tuesday.
Looking more like the star of a playground action flick than a pro-Russia militant, this “secessionista” had no use for flak jackets or balaclavas as she flip-flopped her way across a hopscotch game strewn with smashed glass.
Instead, she stuck to the basic accessories: a rugged fanny pack, jeans worthy of the trendiest East Village brunch spot and an assault rifle clutched to her chest with perfectly manicured French tips.
The anonymous soldier was spotted in the economic hub of Donetsk, where more traditional fellow fighters are sticking to camouflage and where conflict could erupt any minute.
Russian insurgents have infiltrated the regional capital as Ukrainian forces continue to try to maintain a hold on the area.
Tuesday was another violent day for the unstable country, with an airstrike leveling a four-story apartment building, killing at least 11 people in the town of Snizhne in eastern Ukraine.
Igor Chernetsov, a resident of the crumbled building, lost his wife in Tuesday’s attack.
“I heard an explosion, and suddenly I was thrown out of the apartment, out of the fourth floor,” he told the Associated Press.
The attack follows a recent spate of violence in the region, including a Ukrainian military transport plane carrying eight people getting shot down Monday. Defense Ministry representatives said that of the eight passengers on that plane, two were taken as prisoners by rebels, two are missing and four escaped, the AP reported.
Rebels and Ukranians were quick to point fingers at each other over the two incidents this week. Ukraine Security Council spokesman Andrei Lynsenko called Tuesday’s incident a “cynical and bloody provocation.”
In February, Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the nation’s capital after months of protests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimean peninsula back in March.