This article was originally published by The U.S. Sun on 19 August 2023 and can be accessed here.

MERCILESS Vladimir Putin is using barbaric Hitler-style starvation tactics to “terrorise, subjugate and kill” Ukrainians, experts warned.

Armed sieges, bread queue massacres, and pillaging of farming machinery are all part of “Putin’s calculated plan” to starve Ukraine into submission.

In March last year, chilling footage emerged of bodies strewn across a street outside a bakery in the northern city of Chernihiv after coming under fire from Russian forces.

At least 20 Ukrainians died after they came under fire while waiting for a loaf of bread. Credit: EAST2WEST

As the Ukrainians waited for a loaf of bread, they came under fire from either a 122mm Grad multiple rocket launcher or a Howitzer, according to an investigation by international law firm Global Rights Compliance.

At least 20 people died in the massacre.

Barrister Catriona Murdoch, the head of Global Rights Compliance’s Starvation Mobile Justice Team, said the killings were the “tip of the iceberg in Putin’s calculated plan to terrorise, subjugate and kill Ukrainian people”.

Putin’s soldiers have slaughtered Ukrainian farmers and looted their barns and stores, while decimating farmland and planting landmines in rich soil where much-needed crops should grow.

Food storage sites have been bombed and thousands of tonnes of grain has been stolen – in what have been branded “Hitlerian tactics”.

Long-suffering locals in some besieged areas of Ukraine have even been forced to drink water from the rivers after missiles destroyed power stations.

And desperate families were also cut off in the Kherson region after Putin allegedly blew up the Nova Khakovka dam – leaving entire areas completely underwater.