VLADIMIR Putin's crumbling war machine has sunken to grotesque new lows - using Nazi-era weapons looted from museums as his battered army runs out of ammo.

Ukraine 's "Tur" reconnaissance unit revealed it had stumbled across Nazi detonators in a Russian ammunition dump - marked with the swastika and Reichsadler eagle, stamped with the year 1934.

"Nazi weapons are still being used to kill people," the unit wrote on Telegram.

"The Hitler and Stalin regimes are gone, but the Putin regime has replaced them; the names differ, but the essence remains the same.

"The Russian authorities feed their people the myth of fighting fascism, while in reality they themselves are a fascist state."

The eerie discovery dredged up memories of Moscow’s own dark pact with Adolf Hitler at the start of Wor

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