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THIS is the humiliating moment Vladimir Putin's troops were forced to drop to their knees and wave white flags as they surrendered to Ukraine. Armed Ukrainians can be seen making their Russian enemies hand themselves over "en masse" with their hands behind their heads as the battle for Kursk enters its sixth day. Footage appears to show a Ukrainian soldier standing tall as three rows of crouching Russians cower in a field. The captives were made to say "Glory to Ukraine" back to the gun-wielding soldier, the footage shows. In a separate clip, nine FSB security service officers were seen...

VLADIMIR Putin has purged his top general over a mass loss of troops in Ukraine as Russia's losses are now said to be as high as 50,000. Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov, 60, was ditched for the devastating “mass casualties” among Putin's elite paratroopers, it has been alleged. The speculation comes as a Russian source is said to have suggested the country’s overall losses in Ukraine are close to 50,000 - significantly higher than most other estimates.