A "graveyard" of Russian military vehicles has been discovered in a humiliating defeat for warmongerer Vladimir Putin's forces.
Ukrainian military chiefs claim to have killed hundreds of enemy soldiers as they attempted to cross the Seversky Donets River close to Severodonetsk in the east of the country.
Footage and pictures from the scene show destroyed military vehicles- with a Ukrainian soldier claiming the Russians looked like "some sort of suicide club".
The trooper, named Yuri, told Sky News: “It seems like they were some sort of suicide club, or their commanders didn't care for them - it’s strange.
“They just sent them to die and they followed stupid, stupid orders from their commanders.”
The Russian forces are understood to have tried to use smoke as a cover as they built pontoon bridges across the strategically-important river.
But Ukrainian forces were laying in wait and launched a devastating attack claimed to have killed hundreds of Russians and destroyed around 70 vehicles.
Yesterday Ukraine's 30th Mechanized Brigade said its troops had destroyed dozens of Russian armored vehicles close to the village of Dronivka.
In a statement it said: "Defeat of Russian troops near the village of Dronivka, Donetsk region, during the crossing of the Seversky Donets River."
Meanwhile the Centre for Strategic Communications (StratCom) said: "Russian troops tried to break through the Seversky Donets River near the village of Dronivka and set up three bridgeheads.
"However, the heroism and resilience of infantry, artillery, and tank units of the 30th Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Konstanty Ostrogski and other units of the Armed Forces allowed us to stop the Russian troops and inflict heavy losses on them.
"The result of the defeat: dozens of units of destroyed Russian armored vehicles."
Sievierodonetsk and its twin Lysychansk across the Siverski Donets River form the eastern part of a Ukrainian-held pocket that Russia has been trying to overrun since mid-April after failing to capture Kyiv.
