A Russian sergeant slams his comrade's "f****d up" tactics in an intercepted call, as Ukrainian children and pensioners are bludgeoned to death with rifle butts in sickening acts of war time horror.
Moscow's troops are increasingly resorting to more brutal and depraved tactics after suffering enormous losses in 69 days of ruthless fighting.
Shocking phone intercepts are said to claim Russian soldiers have bludgeoned children and the elderly to death with rifle butts and executed whole families.
Intelligence sources have claimed intercepted communications have revealed the horror war crimes.
In a March 19 phone call between Russian soldier Senior Sergeant Oleg Dodzhiev and another serviceman who was stationed in Moscow at the time, the first soldier says: "Actually, I’ve grown so disappointed with this deployment."
He is reported to have added: “It’s just that the things we’re our people are doing here... It’s totally f***ed up, I'm telling you.
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“Our guys are slamming kids with rifle butts. You see? They get drunk and break into people’s homes, hitting small children in the face with a rifle butt.
“Old people are f***ing beaten to death. Also, those ‘striped’ forces of our so-called elite.
“...they’ve been doing some crazy s t . When they see civilian convoys – families, children – they annihilate the whole f* ing column, everyone.”
Russia has been accused of carrying out a “big cleaning” by burning countless dead bodies in mobile crematoriums to hide the extent of its crimes in Ukraine.
In Mariupol, Ukraine says that Russian troops are rounding up the dead and burning them in a massive “cleaning” effort.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said that Russian troops in the city had been undertaking the macabre task since April 15.
It added that they had been using three mobile crematoriums in their 'clean up’ as they rounded up the bodies of the Ukrainians that they had killed.
In a statement released today they said: “Today in Mariupol occupiers carry out ‘big cleaning’.
“The Russians are searching for and destroying the bodies of the dead. To do this, the city has three mobile crematoria since April 15.”
It is believed this is in an effort to hide Russian crimes in the city, and comes weeks after sickening revelations of mass killings in the Kyiv Oblast left the streets littered with dead.
By burning the dead it means charities, the UN and Ukraine would be unable to assess to extent of Russian actions and how many have died.
It would also make reuniting families, or informing them of their loved one’s passing, nearly impossible as well.
It has previously been reported that Russia were trying to “cover their tracks” by using the mobile crematoriums to hide the true scale of slaughter in the city.
Mariupol has been at the centre of some of the worst atrocities in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The city has been hit by relentless Russia shelling and air strikes, including targeting a maternity and children’s hospital and a shelter.
Officials said that more than 90 per cent of the city’s infrastructure had been hit by shelling.
Now, most of the city is under Russian control, with Ukrainian troops holed up in a steelworks plant.
Mariupol’s city council previously accused Russia of sending out “special brigades” to round up the dead the dead bodies and burn them.
