Vladimir Putin has been condemned for attending the funeral of another dictator while neglecting tens of thousands killed in his war with Ukraine.
Video footage has emerged which showed the Kremlin leader, 70, flying to oil-rich Ufa to pay his respects to Murtaza Rakhimov, ex-president of oil-rich Russian republic Bashkortostan, who died aged 88.
It came as an emotive picture emerged of Russian mobilised troops packed into a makeshift barracks seconds before they were hit by a Ukrainian missile.
