Russian President Vladimir Putin's own troops have started to turn against him after a furious squad branded a globally-condemned airstrike on a maternity hospital as "perverse neo-Nazism".
The strike, which devastated a Ukrainian maternity hospital was branded as "the most perverse f**king form of neo-Nazism".
The besieged city of Mariupol has suffered a barrage of attacks, with hospitals targeted and Russian forces taking hospital staff and patients hostage to use as human shields.
At least three people were killed in the maternity hospital blast, including a young girl, while 17 people were wounded after the Russian airstrike hit the destroyed hospital in the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy branded the attack an act of "genocide".
Even one of Putin's own soldiers, who had been captured by Ukrainians, branded the airstrike as "perverse".
Speaking to CNN, Russian pilot Maxim said: "It was a horrifying act, not just because it is a crime. It's vandalism. You cannot forgive such things. To bomb a maternity ward?
"It's the most perverse f**king form of neo-Nazism, neo-fascism. Who could think of such a thing?
"It's not just about demilitarising Ukraine or the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now cities of peaceful civilians are being destroyed."
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The Russian prisoner of war added: "Even, I don't know, what can justify, f**k, the tears of a child, or even worse, the deaths of innocent people, children."
Maxim also suggested there was disquiet and shame among invading troops, saying: "I know in my unit, they are totally against it.
"They have many relatives and friends [in Ukraine], and they were told it was an operation localised to the DNR [the Russian-backed Donetsk area], and not an attack on the whole country. My division was totally against it.
"I want to tell our commander-in-chief to stop terror acts in Ukraine because when we come back we'll rise against him."
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