Putin’s desperate troops ‘so short of food they’re eating each other’ in Ukraine | World | News

A radio recording shows Vladimir Putin’s starving troops ‘revealing how they have resorted to cannibalism’.

The claim from Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence is about the occupying soldiers in the Zaporozhye region.

“Due to food shortages, the invaders are sharpening their knives and preparing to eat their young comrades,” the spy agency said.

A wiretap reportedly recorded a Russian saying: “We are going to eat each other, everything is ruined here.

“We are already looking for someone younger.

“I sharpened my knives.

“I don’t care who I have to cut.

“I just want to eat.

“****everyone else.”

GUR said: “Cannibalism is becoming a common practice among Russian soldiers.

“In June this year, it became known that a soldier of the 68th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Armed Forces ate his ‘comrade’ for two weeks.”

Ukrainians said in Putin’s message to his hungry troops: “The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reminds: [you that] “Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine are given three meals a day.”

They were given instructions on how to surrender safely.

Separately, images have emerged of new defense lines in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region to prevent Putin’s troops from seizing more territory.

Kiev defense minister Denys Shmyhal said: “Fortification construction work continues in all front-line areas.”

In the frontline areas, he said: “The State Special Transport Service forces have already constructed 2,130 platoon strongholds, approximately 2,864 miles of anti-tank trenches, more than 621 miles of barricade pyramids, approximately 9,942 miles of Egoza. [razor wire] barrier lines and approximately 2,672 miles of low visibility obstacles.

Meanwhile, Russian forces began using metal sea containers to protect tanks, in one of the strangest innovations of the war.

This appears to protect against Ukrainian aerial drone attacks.

The footage shows tanks patrolling the front line with sea containers attached.

A tank is also seen dragging a container across a field to be deployed for “military purposes”.