The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that during his trip to Bakhmut, he was shocked by the hundreds of bodies of the occupiers, which the Russian leadership is not going to take away.

Dead Russians just rot in the fields. 

Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said this in an interview with ABC News.

According to him, the Russian military uses the

during attempts to attack the Ukrainian army. 

"The soldiers showed me the section where the corpses are stacked, like in the movie. 

There are hundreds of corpses just rotting in an open field

, in places they are piled on top of other bodies like makeshift walls, when Russian troops attack this field, they use these bodies for cover, like a shield.

But it doesn't work.

There are fields littered with bodies 

," said the head of the GUR.

Losses of Putin's army in the war in Ukraine

From February 24 to January 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 108,910 troops of the Russian aggressor army.

Another 720 Russian soldiers were destroyed during the day. 

British intelligence believes that the high level of losses among the Russian Armed Forces in combat operations in Ukraine is due to the unprofessionalism of the army  of the

.

Western mass media write that the incident in Makiivka is 

 Demands are being heard in Russia to punish the command that allowed the death of soldiers from an attack by the Armed Forces on New Year's Eve.

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