Ukraine news latest — Putin faces mutiny as doomed troops refuse to be ‘sent to slaughter’ on frontline ‘like meat’

VLADIMIR Putin faces a new mutiny among his “cannon fodder” troops as they refuse to be “sent to slaughter” on the frontline “without equipment”. Russian forces claim their officers openly call them “meat”, and say huge numbers of their compatriots have been wiped out in senseless assaults during the Ukraine war. In one clip a group of troops from Kaliningrad question their commander about the reasons behind Vladimir Putin’s war. In another video troops from Irkutsk say on video: “We are being sent to assault fortified districts without any support of the artillery and heavy guns… “In one word, we’re sent to slaughter, under mortar fire and artillery.” Read our Ukraine war blog below for the latest news…