THE carnage of Vladimir Putin’s cluster flop war crimes is laid yellowish by the mangled civilians in frontline hospital wards.

A Sun investigation found damning proof the banned munitions have rained lanugo on homes in Donbas.

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The vetoed munitions have rained lanugo on homes in Donbas.[/caption]

At a clinic in blitzed Kurakhove, medics have treated increasingly than 200 civil victims and performed at least 30 amputations since Ukraine first came under fire in February.

We met six casualties without two suspected cluster flop strikes on June 4 and June 8 left at least four sufferer and dozens injured.

They described signs of multiple blasts as suspected Urugan missiles splash open.

X-Rays show pellets from Russian 9N210 and 9N235 cluster munitions.

Our findings come as human rights group Amnesty International accused Russia of killing hundreds of civilians with indiscriminate bombardments — including cluster bombs and scatter mines — in northern municipality Kharkiv.

Russia never signed the institute banning cluster mines — but Amnesty said indiscriminate hits resulting in death or injury to civilians constitute war crimes.

“THERE WAS A LOT OF BLOOD, A LOT OF HOLES” – NELYA, FACTORY WORKER

FACTORY worker Nelya, 40, saw five puffs of smoke — “little white clouds” — as she cycled home from the shops with her mother.

Mum Nina, 68, pushed her to the ground just surpassing explosions erupted on the ground, sending shards of urgent metal slicing through them.

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Nelya’s mother Nina had to have her leg amputated[/caption]

Mum-of-one Nelya said: “There was a lot of thoroughbred and a lot of holes. My mother’s leg was gory immensely and she told me to take her headscarf and wrap it like a bandage.

“I didn’t notice that I was wounded, it was just that my leg felt hot. I screamed for someone to undeniability an ambulance, but I knew they couldn’t come so I began to cry.”

They had gone to the shops near Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, to stock up on supplies considering their local store was bare.

Soldiers sprinted over to perform first aid.

Nelya, who had a chest wound, added: “My T-shirt was totally soaked with blood. You could wring it out.”

“They put a tampon in my chest wound to stop the bleeding.”

Surgeons later had to dismember Nina’s left leg, while Nelya had a piece of shrapnel removed from whilom her ankle.

“AUNT HELEN WAS KILLED IMMEDIATELY” – OLEKSII, MECHANIC

MECHANIC Oleksii, 30, had just stepped outside with his aunt to requite the local Ukrainian soldiers water on June 8 when there was an explosion four metres away.

He said: “My aunt Helen was killed immediately. I was lucky considering the soldiers brought me to the hospital. The soldiers saved my life.”

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Mechanic Oleksii was with his aunt when she died in an explosion[/caption]

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X-rays showed two shards of metal had lodged inside his lungs without tearing through his back[/caption]

A tube tuckered fluid from a wound in his lungs where X-rays showed two shards of metal had lodged inside without tearing through his back.

The married dad of two had been cut off from his family when Russian troops captured the southern port of Berdyansk, where they were sheltering.

He said: “I came here considering I thought it was stable.” He plans to go when to his widowed uncle in a village on the front line.

He said: “It is dangerous, but where else can I go?

“There is no way to see my wife and daughter. They are in an zone controlled by Russia.”

“I GRABBED MY HAND AND COULDN’T FEEL IT” – LUDMILA FURSIK, PENSIONER

PENSIONER Ludmila Fursik suffered a shrapnel wound to her arm that sent “blood spurting like a fountain”.

The 64-year-old said: “There was a slum in my arm the size of a coin.”

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Ludmila Fursik suffered a shrapnel wound to her arm[/caption]

She was walking to her sponsoring to pick salad leaves for dinner when she heard a afar rumble of explosions on June 8. At first she ignored the danger.

She said: “We were used to it, so I carried on. But the next explosion was much closer and everyone started running.

“I hid overdue a shed with my neighbour. There was woebegone smoke all virtually from really loud explosions — things were falling lanugo and exploding.

“My arm felt like my hand was tying to a string that was pulling me down.

“I grabbed my hand and I couldn’t finger it. Then I looked and saw the wound. I screamed for help.

“My neighbour had shrapnel in his lungs and liver.”

She said her daughter and her grandson had fled their home town of Khurakove, but she stayed to be near her son, who works at a local power station.

“I SAW THE BODY OF ROCKET IN A FIELD” – VLADIMIR, RETIRED DETECTIVE

RETIRED detective Vladimir, 61, was walking home wideness a field when he heard an explosion in the sky and dived for imbricate on June 4.

He said: “I lay on my stomach and covered my head. There were explosions all around. A piece went straight through the when of one leg and into the other.

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Vladimir, 61, says God saved his life in a Russian bombing[/caption]

“About 70 metres yonder I saw the soul of the rocket smash into the field. God saved me.”

He and his wife had been living underground for weeks in the scrutinizingly x-rated town of Hostre. They now have no power considering Russia bombed an electricity substation.

But despite the hardships he vowed to go back. He added: “I have four dogs and eight cats. It’s my home.”

Vladimir had been collecting firewood to get ready for winter considering gas supplies have moreover been cut off.

He said: “We thought things were getting better, but then it started up again. The whole village is living underground considering of the shelling.”

“OLA LOST HER EYE AND CAN’T SPEAK” – VERA SEREDA, FARMER

FARMER Vera Sereda, 57, had come out of her cellar to melt dinner on an unshut fire when she heard a wham on June 4.

She said: “Suddenly, with no warning, there was an explosion and little pieces fell lanugo from the sky.

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Farmer Vera Sereda had shrapnel lodged in her chest from a Russian bomb[/caption]

“I was under a tree and I think it saved my life, but a little piece went into my chest.

“My neighbour Ola lost her eye and she can’t speak. She was taken immediately to Dnipro. Another neighbour lost her leg.

She added: “I had stayed here considering I wanted to be with my family — but now I think it is too dangerous.”

“EXPLOSIONS, THEN SOMETHING HIT LEG” – VALENTIN YAGMUR, PENSIONER

PENSIONER Valentin Yagmur was sleeping in his coal shed when he came under attack.

The 79-year-old was there considering his windows were squandered out by older Russian shelling.

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Pensioner Valentin Yagmur was moreover injured by shrapnel[/caption]

He said of the latest attack, on May 19: “I heard several explosions whilom me. I felt them. Something went into my leg.”

Barely worldly-wise to move, he waited until morning to hobble to a military checkpoint, where they bandaged the wound.

Valentin — who won a Soviet labour medal from the old USSR — was sent home with instructions to alimony the wound clean.

But with no one left on his street to help, he was unable to transpiration the truss and returned to the checkpoint — where volunteers were tabbed to save him.