BREAKING: Putin accuses US of treating Ukrainian citizens as 'human shields'

Vladimir Putin has told the Ukrainian army it would be easier to speak to them rather than the "Nazis that have taken Kyiv".

The Russian President has accused American consultants supporting the Ukrainian army of treating Ukrainian women, children and elderly as "human shields".

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