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Rachel Hagan

Vladimir Putin set to lose 30,000 men in Ukraine as bodies pile up in refrigerated trains

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost nearly 30,000 troops with some seen piling up on refrigerated trains, it has been claimed.

Fresh footage shared by Ukraine 's Railway Chief Alexander Kamyshin shows Ukraine collecting hundreds of dead Russian soldiers and storing their bodies inside a refrigerated train to then send them back to their families.

Mr Kamyshin wrote on Twitter : "We treat dead Russians better than they treat live Ukrainians. Just another thing that makes us different."

The clip declares that Ukraine preserves the bodies, according to humanitarian law, to then release them to "mothers and wives."

The video shows people dressed in head-to-toe protective suits and lifting body bags into the trains.

The railway network, it says in the video, is prepared to deliver "cargo 200" back to Russia and in a message to Putin it says "Your 'cargo of 200' is waiting on demand." "Cargo 200" is a Soviet military code word for the transportation of military fatalities.

The video continually makes references to Russia's unwillingness to repatriate the corpses of their dead soldiers and last week, Anton Gerashchenko, Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, tweeted: "Russia is still not picking up the bodies of its dead soldiers, which are in refrigerated cars near Kyiv. There are more than 250 of them."

Vladimir Putin set to lose 30,000 men in Ukraine (Twitter)

The video continues: "Russia hides real losses from families to avoid panic and to avoid payment of compensations."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in March that Putin has more respect for dead pets than those killed in the war and criticized Russia's refusal to repatriate its fallen soldiers.

Meanwhile, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Putin's bloody war has cost the lives of almost 30,000 soldiers.

This comes as Putin's losses continue to pile up with the Armed Forces of Ukraine reporting that 30,000 Russian soldiers have died.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ((Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images))

British Ministry of Defence also reported that in the first three months of its ‘special military operation’, Russia has likely suffered a similar death toll to that experienced by the Soviet Union during its nine-year war in Afghanistan.

Its situation report update continued: "A combination of poor low-level tactics, limited air cover, a lack of flexibility, and a command approach which is prepared to reinforce failure and repeat mistakes has led to this high casualty rate, which continues to rise in the Donbas offensive.

President Vladimir Putin talks to officers ((Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images))

"As casualties suffered in Ukraine continue to rise they will become more apparent, and public dissatisfaction with the war and a willingness to voice it may grow."

Ukraine's official statistics say that Putin has also lost over 1,200 tanks, 204 planes and 13 boats.

Footage released on Sunday showed Ukraine's forces blowing up one of Russia's deadliest weapons, a vacuum bomb launcher.

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