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Model who joined war against Russia flees after she's tracked down to hotel room

A bikini model who flew to Ukraine to help fight against Russia has fled for her life after would-be killers tracked her down to her hotel room.

Terrified model Liziane Gutierrez, who previously sued rapper Chris Brown in 2016 over an alleged altercation in Las Vegas, received the bone-chilling letter after returning from a date in Kyiv.

The authors of the note, which included details of where Ms Gutierrez had been that night, who she’d been with with and even what she was wearing - threatened to burn her alive unless she left the country.

Ms Gutierrez, who was unfazed by a Russian death threat she got last month, said it was the details in the new message that terrified her.

“The problem with this letter was they had what I was dressed in, where we were and who I was with,” she said.

Ms Gutierrez has previously received Russian death threats after posting pictures of herself posing on top of a destroyed tank, but this time the threats seemed detailed and credible, she said (Credit: Pen News/Liziane Gutierrez)
She had been meeting the boxer, described as an influential Ukrainian, for discreet dates, but somebody had been watching the pair (Credit: Pen News/Liziane Gutierrez)

“I started to panic, I started to freak out, because they had details in the letter. I don’t know who wrote it, but they had facts.”

The mysterious message said she looked “beautiful at dinner”, gave the name of her date – a former boxing champ, and identified the venue where they had dined.

It then asked if she wanted to be burned in the dress she wore, warned that they knew where her family lived and ordered her to “get the f*** out”.

Liziane, who boasts over a million followers on Instagram, first travelled to Ukraine in mid March to volunteer as an aid worker.

She said she’d met the boxer, an influential Ukrainian, via a mutual friend and their dates were always arranged with the utmost discretion.

All telecommunications were made via an intermediary, no photos were taken, and no posts were made on social media.

“Every single time, he was very, very discreet,” she said.

“I was going in one car, he was going in a different car.

Ms Gutierrez said she had gone into hiding after receiving the threats and had then left the country (Credit: Pen News/Liziane Gutierrez)
She had travelled to Ukraine in mid March to volunteer as an aid worker (Credit: Pen News/Liziane Gutierrez)

“It was always restaurants that had almost nobody. It was nice places, for sure.

“But always it was like we were sitting in the back of the restaurant. Because of who he is, he always had a bunch of bodyguards with him.

“And then, after, he’d go in one car and I’d go in the other car.”

The night of their final date at the Premier Palace Hotel, however, Ms Gutierrez said she noticed two men in the street outside her room pointing up at her window.

The following morning, she received the fateful letter via reception of her hotel.

Liziane said she immediately warned the intermediary who’d arranged her dates with the boxer, and that somebody was sent to collect the letter.

But, she added, she’d had no contact with her date since.

She initially volunteered there for approximately a month between mid March and mid April, but returned there again in May (Credit: Pen News/Liziane Gutierrez)

After a few days laying low in her hotel, and then a few more days hiding out in Rivne – 190 miles west of the Ukrainian capital, she made the decision to leave.

“I stayed in the hotel for a few more days. They told me not to post anything on social media, to be very low profile,” she said.

“I went to Rivne with some of his friends for a few days.

“I stayed with this family in this really nice house, they were very nice people.

“They said ‘Liziane, it’s better for everybody involved in this if you leave Ukraine, at least for now.'

“I didn’t want to go, but what was I going to do?”

Ms Gutierrez said she still had no idea who had sent the threat, but added that she hoped to return to Ukraine.

She initially volunteered there for approximately a month between mid March and mid April, but returned there again in May.

The previous death threat she received came after she posted Instagram photos showing her on top of a burned-out Russian tank near Bucha.

After her lawsuit against Chris Brown, she was said to have received around $70,000 (£50,000) in compensation.

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