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True scale of Putin’s ‘tank graveyard’ revealed after drones find MORE destroyed vehicles as Russia’s losses mount up
FRESH images show the true scale of Vladimir Putin's "tank graveyard" after a spy drone found more destroyed armour left behind by Russia's "failing" troops in Ukraine.
The new pictures of the massive junkyard ten miles inside Russia reveal dozens more destroyed tanks, trucks and guns.
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Ukrainian spy-drones spotted the graveyard in the village of Golvochino underlining the scale of Putin's battlefield losses.
Reconnaissance flights carried out by a Ukrainian intelligence unit based in a secret bunker near the border filmed dozens of pieces of damaged military hardware dumped in a field.
A single image of the site showed 57 vehicles including at least 17 tanks.
Now more drone images passed to The Sun show at least 15 more tanks in a neighbouring yard, as well 19 armoured personnel carriers, three towed howitzer guns and 58 more lorries.
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Defence expert Rob Lee, who has tracked Russia's battlefield losses. said: "This shows there is more we haven't publicly recorded."
Russia claimed the site was shelled by Ukraine three days after the drone flight.
Earlier satellite images confirmed there were no vehicles at the site at Golovchino village when Putin unleashed his invasion on February 24 and only a handful on March 17, as the botched invasion faltered.
The Sun was granted exclusive access to join the Ukrainian team which launches its Ukrainian-built Leleka drone daily into Russian airspace with a catapult.
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It comes as Russia continues to fail in its war aims, with Putin believing he could conquer Ukraine in a matter of days.
Ukraine's military claims Russia has so far lost close to 22,000 troops in the unwinnable conflict, which is set to enter its third month.
And they claim the invaders have also seen more than 2,200 armoured vehicles lost or destroyed and 181 planes and 154 helicopters shot down.
Russian troops have been forced back from Kyiv, which has been a political disaster for Putin, who's lost dozens of commanders and seen the country's flagship Moskva sink in the Black Sea after being hit by Ukrainian Neptune missiles.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed those sentiments following a visit to the capital Kyiv.
Speaking at a news conference on the border with Poland after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US top diplomat added that a "sovereign, independent Ukraine" will be around "a lot longer than Russia's Putin is on the scene".
Washinton has approved a £130m sale of ammunition to Ukraine, along with £251m in foreign military financing.
"The strategy that we've put in place - massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts - is having real results," he said.
"When it comes to Russia's war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. That has failed."
He said Russia "sought to assert the power of its military and its economy" but were seeing "just the opposite: a military that is dramatically underperforming, an economy - as a result of sanctions, as a result of a mass exodus from Russia - that is in shambles."
He also said Russia's attempt to "divide the West and NATO" had failed.
Blinken also confirmed that US diplomats would soon return to Ukraine next week to take up positions in its embassy in Kyiv.
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This was the first visit by a senior US official since Russian invaded Ukraine.
He was joined by Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin.
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