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GRAPHIC battlefield footage shows how Putin is sending troops to the frontline of his war on motorbikes - with NO protection.
Aerial film highlights dozens of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles cut down in a valley of death near Vuhledar city, eastern Ukraine.
Among the military vehicles are motorbikes plainly used by Putin’s forces in the Donetsk warzone - but it is not yet confirmed when the blast took place.
This area has already suffered massive population decline since Russia has waged its brutal war on Ukraine.
Viewers of the 90-second-long clip are confronted with the harsh blares of kamikaze drones, artillery and tank fire.
You can see charred skeletons of military vehicles, including several motorcycles, scattered along the roads.
Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazansky, a Donetsk local, claimed Russia statetelevision would never show this.
The footage showed “the defeat of the advancing Russian troops near Vuhledar.
“There is damaged equipment everywhere," he said.
“You can see a whole cemetery of motorbikes, which the [Russian] occupiers are forced to use due to a lack of armoured vehicles.”
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The scene highlighted “real hell” on the frontline where there are “mountains of corpses every day”.
He said of Putin that these were “senseless deaths for the sake of the sick fantasies of a cannibalistic grandfather” in invading Ukraine.
Pro-Ukrainian Israeli military blogger Yigal Levin wrote: "Yet another field of Russian death near Vuhledar from the 72nd mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“You can see that a huge number of motorcycles are lying among the burned tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
“That is, the loss of the armoured fist of the units of the Russian Armed Forces did not bother their commanders, and they continued to send their soldiers into the assault on any transport that they could find.”
The brigade - known as the Black Cossacks - claimed to have destroyed 16 Russian tanks and ten infantry fighting vehicles during May.
They took out 38 armoured fighting vehicles and personnel carriers and a total of 19 motorbikes.
Another 27 were damaged, along with 15 motorbikes.
Amid the carnage are so-called turtle tanks and armoured vehicles - those with cages fitted on them, to try and prevent drone attacks.