Britain'due south Defence Secretary has described a Russian mobile crematorium for utilise in any future conflict as "chilling".

The Ministry building of Defence take released footage of the vehicle, which was seen travelling behind the forces heading for Ukraine.

Ben Wallace suggested that Russian forces invading Ukraine could utilize the incinerators to help disguise the number of casualties inflicted during any potential battle.

Calling it "deeply, deeply" worrying for any Russian troops, he fears it could be assist cover-up deaths if war breaks out.

He told The Telegraph : "Previously they've deployed mobile crematoriums to follow troops around the battlefield, which in anyone'south book is spooky.

The use of such a system may be a mode for the Kremlin to cover up any futurity combat losses, information technology has been claimed

"If I was a soldier and knew that my generals had then little faith in me that they followed me around the battleground with a mobile crematorium, or I was the female parent or father of a son, potentially deployed into a gainsay zone, and my government thought that the mode to cover upwardly loss was mobile crematorium, I'd exist deeply, deeply worried.

"It's a very chilling side event of how the Russians view their forces and for those of you who served, and being a soldier, knowing that trundling backside you is a way to evaporate you if yous are killed in battle.

"It probably says everything y'all need to know about the Russian regime."

The Defense Secretary has suggested Vladimir Putin has gone "full tonto", following the latest escalation in the Ukraine crunch.

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He said the Russian president has made the mistake of having no allies in his deportment, comparing him to Tsar Nicholas I during the Crimean War.

Mr Wallace, a former Scots Guards officer, said his regiment had "kicked the backside" of the tsar in the Crimea and "we can e'er do it again".

The unguarded comments came as the Chiffonier minister chatted with serving military personnel at the Horse Guards building in Westminster.

He said: "It'southward going to be a busy Army. Unfortunately we've got a busy adversary now in Putin, who has gone total tonto."

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Mr Wallace said the UK has 1,000 personnel on stand-by to respond to the crisis, adding: "The Scots Guards kicked the behind of Tsar Nicholas I in 1853 in Crimea - we can ever exercise it once more."

He continued: "Tsar Nicholas I fabricated the same error Putin did... he had no friends, no alliances."

The Defence Secretarial assistant's comments came in a room dominated by a large painting depicting the Battle of Inkerman, a major engagement during the Crimean State of war.

The move has been described as "chilling" by Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary

Mr Wallace's cess of Mr Putin'southward mental state came after Boris Johnson accused the Russian leader of existence "in an casuistic and irrational frame of mind".

Former Nato secretarial assistant-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen also suggested Mr Putin could be unhinged.

"I mean the Russian behaviour right now, information technology's not rational, it's not logical, and then I wouldn't exclude the possibility that Putin has gone crazy," the former prime minister of Denmark told ITV's Peston.

"And we saw recently how he really humiliated his advisers so I don't think we are confronted with a human who is thinking along rational lines."

Earlier, Mr Wallace told reporters he was keeping the possibility of sending further weapons to Ukraine "nether constant review", calculation: "Nosotros're in a pretty adept position to evangelize any blazon of aid pretty quickly to Ukraine, no matter what that aid is."

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