Putin deploys barmiest ‘turtle tanks’ yet as Soviet-era armour hits battlefield shielded by steel shed & chain fringe

VLADIMIR Putin has deployed his astir bizarre "turtle tanks" yet arsenic the tyrant mislaid astir each his modern subject instrumentality since the commencement of the war.

The Soviet-era relics were seen underneath alloy plates and concatenation fringes arsenic they deed the battlefield successful Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, connected Tuesday.

The T-80 tanks, primitively introduced into Soviet subject work successful 1976, person go a awesome of Russia’s humiliating reliance connected older subject equipment.

The advertisement hoc armour are meant to beryllium an effort astatine shielding Vlad's dwindling troops against Kyiv's drones and anti-tank missiles.

Pictures amusement alloy sheds covering astir the full tank, leaving a spread astatine the beforehand for the turret to occurrence astatine force troops.

But visibility and tract consciousness from wrong the mechanical beasts are surely hampered arsenic a result.

Russian tanks person been appeared underneath the turtle shell-like cages aft it was revealed that Putin embarrassingly mislaid astir each of the tanks he had since invading Ukraine.

Since earlier the grim two-year milestone successful Mad Vlad's war, Russian top brass person been forced to trust connected “warehouses and warehouses with stockpiles of vehicles near implicit from the Cold War". 

One clip showed the infinitesimal respective of Putin's "turtle tanks" were reduced to flames by Ukraine successful a bid of striking battles.

Ukraine swiftly repelled Russia's failed effort of an armoured battle connected Lyptsy, Kharkiv Oblast, backmost successful August.

A bid of abbreviated clips showed the chunky tanks being blown up near close and centre with pinpoint accuracy.

In a substance of seconds, Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade managed to deed each vessel and acceptable it alight arsenic galore explosions would instrumentality spot connected the battlefield.

One video adjacent shows Putin's scrambling forces fleeing the box-looking vessel arsenic Kyiv had their aims connected them.

A humiliated Vlad adjacent had to cancel past year's May 9 celebrations - the astir ineffable time successful the Russian calendar - because determination was not capable dense work subject instrumentality to amusement off.

The patriotic subject parades are held throughout Russia as a means of celebrating the state defeating Nazi Germany successful World War 2.

These events are usually utilized by Putin to showcase the mightiness of the Russian subject instrumentality and garner nationalist pridefulness - led by a elephantine parade in Moscow's Red Square.

Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the flag-waving time utilized to impact tanks, atomic missiles and immense guns rumbling done the superior arsenic warplanes soared overhead.

But past year, Victory Day was cancelled crossed a swathe of Russian territories with a pared-down lawsuit successful Moscow with hardly immoderate dense work subject instrumentality connected display.

After 2 years of warfare in Ukraine, rumours were swirling that the parades were called disconnected owed to a deficiency of tanks to adjacent enactment successful the parades.

But that is not stopping the Kremlin tyrant from making much threats astatine Ukraine and the West.

Moscow connected Tuesday said it is "preparing a response" to Ukraine aft saying it fired respective US long-range missiles astatine Russia successful the past fewer days.

Russia's defence ministry said: "According to confirmed data, implicit the past 3 days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces person carried retired 2 strikes with long-range Western weapons connected targets successful the Kursk region."

In caller weeks North Korea has sent thousands of troops to enactment Mad Vlad and past Tuesday embattled Kyiv unleashed its first long-range missile into Russia.

There are present fears that warfare volition spill implicit nationalist borders, with Germany being the latest state to ramp up precautionary measures.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and his authorities are urging resilience amid ongoing attacks, including cyber threats that could disrupt power grids and net infrastructure.

The increasing menace has prompted warnings from British officials at NATO about the risks of cyber warfare.

A elder NATO main besides warned that Europe must hole for full warfare with Putin arsenic nations are stepping up some subject and civilian defences amid rising tensions.

It comes after two US Stratofortress bombers carried retired a ngo flying adjacent Russian airspace on Monday successful a almighty amusement of unit to Moscow.