The Russian president’s rippling muscles have startled some people (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
Vladimir Putin has been portrayed with massive bulging biceps on the cover of a bizarre new 2024 calendar on sale in Russia.
An artist’s impression of the 71-year-old Russian president shows him looking ripped in a tight black T-shirt with the letter ‘Z’ on the front and the national flag stitched onto his sleeve.
Leaning against a black 4×4, the somewhat unrealistic Putin poster boy depiction is the first page of a calendar released by a support group for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) veterans.
Other images paint Russian soldiers as protectors as they comfort women, children and cats – and clutch a teddy bear.
More sinister pictures appear throughout, including a modern special forces trooper firing his gun, while a WWII soldier is behind him shooting and carrying the Soviet Union flag.
Poster boy Vladimir Putin is depicted with bulging muscles in a new 2024 calendar (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
Drawings also portray an attack on the US Capitol building in Washington (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
For the month of November, the calendar shows Russian special forces using drones and a helicopter to attack the US Capitol building in Washington.
December has a roaring bear donning a beret with a flag wrapped around it and a message written across.
It reads: ‘It’s not important who is against you, it’s important who is with you.’
A roaring bear appears with the messsage: ‘It’s not important who is against you, it’s important who is with you’ (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
A WWII soldier with a Soviet Union flag is drawn behind a modern trooper (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
A modern soldier is flanked by a medieval knight holding a sword and Tsar Peter the Great for September.
Meanwhile, May depicts a gunner raising his rifle in front of a graffiti wall sprayed with the word ‘tornado’.
Russian soldiers firing artillery and a drawing of a modern armoured vehicle also feature, reports MailOnline.
The calendar, which was designed by Moscow illustrator Tatyana Kazantseva, has a recommended retail price of £40, but has been seen on sale for far less at £8.70.
The calendar was released in support of FSB veterans (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
It even shows Russian soldiers as protectors of children (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
And cats… (Picture: X/Jonny Tickle)
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Putin did reveal his very own 2024 calendar earlier this year which doesn’t include him riding shirtless on horseback through Siberia this time around, as it did in 2021.
A flick through shows Putin showing off his judo moves, posing with a class of youngsters practicing martial arts and him striding in front of a warplane.
Another one shows the warlord in a camouflage gilet in the Russian mountains.
Just last week, Putin confirmed he was going to run for president for another six years.
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