Russian soldiers use bodies of dead brothers-in-arms as shields

Bodies of Russian soldiers have piled up in Donbas, and Russian troops use those piles as shields when they conduct offensive operations. 

Source: Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, in an interview with ABC News

Details: Budanov was in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, at the end of December where the fiercest battles are going on right now. What he saw shocked him. 

Quote: "Soldiers showed me a section where dead bodies are piled up like something you would see in a movie… There are hundreds of dead bodies just rotting away in the open field; in certain places, they are piled on top of other bodies like makeshift walls; when Russian troops attack on that field, they use those bodies for cover, like a shield…

But it's not working. There are actual fields of dead bodies there."  

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