Female rebel fighters take part in beauty pageant
Afsar Ali
2015-03-08
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Female rebel fighters participated in a beauty pageant on Saturday in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
The unusual event saw the fighters swap their military boots and camouflage fatigues for high heels and ball gowns.
"We have to continue to live," said one of the contestants who gave her name only as Anna.
"War is war but life continues," she added.
The pageant was held on the eve of the International Women's Day.
According to the biographies of the competitors, some of them left their children behind to fight on the side of the pro-Russia rebels.
One of the contestants was a woman from the Russian city of Bryansk, around 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Speaking at the contest, leading rebel official Denis Pushilin suggested that Kiev was not complying with its obligations under the Minsk peace deal agreement on eastern Ukraine.
The unusual event saw the fighters swap their military boots and camouflage fatigues for high heels and ball gowns.
"We have to continue to live," said one of the contestants who gave her name only as Anna.
"War is war but life continues," she added.
The pageant was held on the eve of the International Women's Day.
According to the biographies of the competitors, some of them left their children behind to fight on the side of the pro-Russia rebels.
One of the contestants was a woman from the Russian city of Bryansk, around 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Speaking at the contest, leading rebel official Denis Pushilin suggested that Kiev was not complying with its obligations under the Minsk peace deal agreement on eastern Ukraine.
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