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Ukraine’s defence minister celebrates birthday with Putin mugshot cake

He also poses with a picture of the Russian president getting a spanking.

Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak, who turned 50 on Wednesday, received and posed with some unusual gifts: a mugshot cake of Vladimir Putin, as well as a framed picture of himself spanking the Russian president.

The photos were posted on the Facebook page of Assistant Defence Minister and presidential adviser Yuri Biryukov, and received several thousand likes.