Huge graveyard for Russian troops revealed as Putin's inner circle distance ... trends now
Startling new footage of war graves highlights the scale of the death toll Vladimir Putin has inflicted on his fighters in Ukraine.
The Goryachiy Klyuch graveyard in Krasnodar region is set aside for troops in the Wagner private army backing the Russian invasion.
This force comprising volunteers, mercenaries and jail convicts has seen tens of thousands of deaths, roped into suicidal 'human wave' death squads and thrown at the front line without hope of return.
The graves 'so large it's impossible to walk across' are revealed as a veteran Russian political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin believes there are now clear signs key players in the dictator's circle are distancing themselves from him, not wanting to drown in his 'bloody swamp' as he leads his people to a 'dead end'.
Rows of graves marked with flowers and crosses mark the fallen in Krasnodar, south Russia
Lying in this necropolis are men whose relatives did not ask for them to be buried in their home region. Many more corpses lie unclaimed on the battlefield.
The commentary on the video is by a weeping Russian woman who says: 'It's such a big graveyard, all graves are new…
'There is no end in sight… There are young men, and men of all ages.
'Rest in peace. You can't even walk to the other end of it, this is such a big graveyard at Goryachiy Klyuch.'
It was 'impossible to count' the graves, she said.
There are visibly far more graves than in January.
'My soul is bleeding,' she said.
Wagner Group is seeking to expand the given permission for 700 to be buried.
Political analyst Oreshkin told We Can Explain media: 'The more Putin plunges into the bloody swamp, the fewer people will want to drown with him.'
He singled out ex-ministers Arkady Dvorkovich and Alexei Kudrin as
