Ukrainian model who stripped down to save her football team hopes for ‘peace’

A Ukrainian model who once stripped down in an attempt to save her local football team is hoping for "peace" in her homeland.

Angelina Petrova took to Instagram following the Russian invasion of Ukraine to call for an end to the war in eastern Europe and a return to peace.

The model has appeared in Playboy magazine in the past and is best known for stripping off to raise money for her local football team back in 2015.

Having left Ukraine last year, she has now been forced to see the country of her birth at war with Russia for the past week.

Petrova posted a selfie for her 88,700 Instagram followers last Thursday following the Russian invasion, in which she called for peace.

She captioned the post: “Almost a year since I do not live in Ukraine, but I love my Motherland with all my heart.

“My Homeland is no war, only peace.”

According to her Instagram biography, Petrova currently lives in Germany but is also planning a trip to the Belgian capital Brussels.

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She previously made headlines back in 2015 when she stripped off to raise money for Metalurh Zaporizhya, from her home city.

Petrova posed in the team's shirt before removing it to be photographed behind a scarf, with the pictures sold by the club as posters.

The images were also placed on club souvenirs but were unable to raise the necessary funds to save the club.

A phoenix club, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, were later formed which now plays in the third tier of Ukrainian football.

Petrova's Instagram feed is filled with glamorous images from her various photoshoots, with the model having modelled for the likes of Playboy in the past.

She remains an avid football fan, having posed in Barcelona shirts donning the name of Lionel Messi in the past.

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