Russian Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike is sent to fight in Ukraine… after getting too FAT to model as the Hollywood star’s double, killing his career [Video]

A Russian who won a string of acting and advertising roles as a Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike has been sent to fight in the war against Ukraine.

Roman Burtsev, 41, won modelling gigs playing the Hollywood star but then saw the work drop off.

The doppelgänger was initially hit by the pandemic when he put on too much weight to convince as DiCaprio while living in a two-room council flat with his parents and cat.

Burtsev has been unable to reprise his former fame as the Russian face of the 49-year-old American – and was instead ordered like many unemployed men to sign up for Vladimir Putin‘s war.