RUSSIA has hurled a Playboy editor to fight on the frontlines in the war against Ukraine, it was revealed today.
Vladimir Lyaporov, 48, has been sent to fight in the tyrant’s dastartly war.
Vladimir Putin’s armed forces have sent ex-Playboy Russia editor Vladimir Lyaporov to fight in the war in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin inspects the “Zapad-2025”
The ex-editor-in-chief of the famous men’s magazine in Russia signed a contract with the Moscow defence ministry.
This was in return for the suspension of a criminal case alleging embezzlement involving two companies in London.
Lyaporov has been accused in pro-Kremlin TV reports of creating a financial pyramid scheme.
REN TV channel has claimed that eight people suffered losses in the alleged £445,000 scam.
The court case has been underway since August, but was aborted after he signed the contract agreeing to fight in the war.
Putin has recruited both the convicted and accused in Russia for the war in return for dropping their sentences, or charges against them.
Lyaporov had been appointed editor of Russia’s Playboy edition in 2007.
It comes after the Russian tyrant was spotted on Tuesday in military uniform during major war games.
He appeared at Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
The dictator was at least 500 miles from the nearest frontline in the war.
Putin thanked participants at the major military event.
He said: “I would like to thank you for your participation.
“I hope it was useful from a professional point of view [and] from the point of view of restoring a high level of trust between our countries.”
He boasted that the practice for attacking NATO was “taking place at 41 training grounds”.
“100,000 servicemen are participating, [with] about 10,000 weapons and equipment systems,” he added.
“More than 247 surface ships, submarines and support vessels are also used,” he said.
“Twenty five foreign delegations have arrived to participate in the events of the 2025 exercise.”
It comes after a Russian activist has been sentenced to 11 years in absentia after urinating on a portrait of dictator Vladimir Putin.
Taso Pletner, 28, member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot, was one of five activists who faced a Moscow court.
He was accused of embezzling funds in British companies, cases which are now suspended. 
