A brave Ukrainian grandmother armed with just a cane gave Putin’s army the slip by walking six miles to safety in her slippers.

Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska, 98, fled her village of Ocheretyne in the eastern Donetsk region, as Russian troops entered the settlement last week.

Putin’s troops are steadily advancing westwards from Avdiivka, as Ukraine‘s army suffers from chronic shortages of key weapons, ammunition and manpower.

Ocheretyne along with several other villages is now believed to be under the full control of the Kremlin’s army.

The nonagenarian was woken over the weekend by the terrifying sounds of a fierce battle raging near her home.

“I woke up surrounded by shooting all around – so scary,” she told Ukraine‘s National Police in a recorded video interview. “My daughter in law said that we needed to leave.”

Lidia became separated from her family after she decided to take the main road out of the village, while her relatives chose to go along back routes.

Armed with just a cane and a splintered piece of wood for support, the brave granny walked all day long without food or water.

She recalled falling twice and sleeping along the route as she rested from her arduous trek.

“Once I lost balance and fell into weeds, she recounted. “I fell asleep – a little, and continued walking. And then, for the second time, again, I fell.

“But then I got up and thought to myself: ‘I need to keep walking, bit by bit.'”

Pavlo Diachenko, an acting spokesman for the National Police of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, said the heroic granny was rescued from her ordeal after Ukrainian soldiers spotted her walking along the road in the evening.

Lidia was then handed over to the White Angels, who evacuated her to a shelter and contacted her relatives.

Russian troops have committed brutal acts of rape on Ukrainian girls and women, irrespective of age.

According to the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, girls as young as four and women as old as 83 have been subjected to barbaric sexual assault.

The violence is often committed as a form of torture and in conjunction with other human rights violations against Ukrainian civilians, detainees, and prisoners of war, a UN spokesperson told Business Insider.

“Frequently, family members were kept in an adjacent room, thereby forced to hear the violations taking place,” they said.