PUTIN has deployed war horses with Starlink satellite dishes mounted on their backs, in the latest bizarre front line sighting.
The tech, developed by Elon Musk, is being used in a bid to boost internet coverage in remote areas of the battlefield.
Footage shows the small satellite dishes, which provide broadband access, strapped on to horse saddles.
The equipment will give Russian troops the chance to stream live footage from the front line, potentially allowing coordinated assaults and aiding drone strikes, the Telegraph reports.
Russian units have increasingly been sending cavalry to the front line in eastern Ukraine in a desperate bid to dominate the territory.
Ukraine claims Putin’s army has been forced to revert to old fashioned warfare due to their loss of equipment.
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Just last month Ukraine’s 92nd Brigade posted footage of drones hunting down Russian soldiers as they galloped through a field on horseback.
The brigade wrote: “Russian occupiers lose so much equipment during their ‘meat-grinder’ assaults that they’re forced to move on horseback.”
The first horse-mounted casualty was reported by observers of the war in Ukraine in October.
Prior to this, numerous reports sited Russia using donkeys and even camels to transport ammunition to the front line.
In one instance, a seven-foot, one-tonne Bactrian camel was seen galloping through eastern Ukraine behind a white pick-up truck full of soldiers.
The camel was found and taken in by Ukraine after they stormed a Russian position in the war-torn region.
Semyon Pegov, a prominent Z-milblogger, previously said the animals were trained in the Donetsk region before heading into war to ensure they were not spooked when faced with live gunfire and explosions.
Throughout the conflict, which raged for almost four years now, Moscow’s troops have deployed a wide range of crazy tactics against Ukraine.
Entire brigades of knock-off armies and blow-up weapons are all examples of Vladimir Putin’s trickery and deceit.
One of the most bizarre weapons used by the Russian army is inflatable military equipment.
Throughout the war, Russia on multiple occasions used tanks and other military vehicles, which in reality are just inflatable toys that look identical.
These decoys are a low-cost, rapidly deployed way to confuse enemy reconnaissance, waste ammunition, sow confusion, and draw fire away from real targets.
Other examples include camouflage tactics, such as jets painted on tarmacs.
There have also been a few instances where the Russian army has reportedly used mannequins to make up fake army battalions.
But the barmiest of all are the converted “turtle tanks” with a heavily armoured, low-profile design resembling the shape of a turtle.
The term isn’t specific to a single model but can describe various tanks known for their strong armour and defensive capabilities.
One prominent example is the German Panzer VIII Maus, the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built.
Another is the Soviet KV-2, known for its thick armor and large turret.
The design philosophy behind these tanks focuses on maximum protection and survivability on the battlefield, often at the cost of speed and mobility.
Russian tanks have appeared underneath the turtle shell-like cages after it was revealed that Putin embarrassingly lost almost all of the tanks he had since invading Ukraine.