He went on to urge the person to call for the end to the war because ‘to these b****es it’s just a case of killing everyone’.

The young soldier also appeared to shed tears for those who die on the battlefield because ‘they have no funeral’.

‘You don’t touch the corpses because otherwise the FSB (Russian federal security service) will arrest you,’ he said.

Another soldier, injured during the fighting, was positioned in front of a Ukrainian flag as he spoke to the camera.

He maintained the claim his troops did not know they were about the invade Ukraine and urged Moscow to end the conflict.

‘We are killing peaceful people,’ he said. ‘This is not our war. Mothers and wives, collect your husbands. There is no need to be here.’