A BUNCH of blundering Russian soldiers have been blown up by their own mine after crafty Ukrainians led them into a booby trap with a prank call.
The troops in Mariupol were tricked into believing men from the Azov Regiment were hiding out in a home on the outskirts of the city.
According to a Telegram post penned by the Mariupol mayor's office, Putin's goons dashed to the property to ambush the fighters.
They seemed to suspect they would have again reigned victorious after previously seizing the key city from Ukrainian paramilitary troops who fiercely defended it.
But instead of battling in the ultimate showdown, the Russian troops arrived to find the home was empty.
They were lulled there by the fake call before being blown up by mines their own soldiers had set – which they had forgotten about.
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The resourceful pro-Ukrainian squad had noticed the deadly detonations and "took advantage" of the oversight.
The Mariupol mayor's office claimed one of the clumsy Russians was killed while another lost his leg remains in a hospital in Donetsk.
It comes after one of Putin's warships was accidentally sunk by one of its own sea mines near the city's occupied port in July.
The colossal D-106 landing craft was reportedly blown-up by one of the Russian navy's own explosive devices.
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Moscow was earlier humiliated when their troops fled the frontline along a maze of trenches as Ukrainians vowed to push them back to the border.
The embarrassing footage comes as Ukrainian defenders launched their much-anticipated counterattack in occupied Kherson overnight.
The incident in Mariupol marks a rare triumph for Ukraine in the northern coastal city after Russian brutes decimated the place trying to storm the Azovstal iron and steelworks.
Ukrainian troops vowed to fight until the death to defend Mariupol, before Putin's ruthless men took control.
The once celebrated place of culture and beacon of healthcare now resembles something out of the Middle Ages.
Bodies and the remains of the fallen fighters are dumped in bins or still strewn on the ground, amongst the debris and putrid stagnant water pools.
Queues of Mariupol residents wait in the scorching sun to collect water in plastic buckets while bulldozers try to clear devastated buildings.
The injured and the ill make their way to the hospital, where there is no help to be received.
Some residents are forced to drink sewage as there is little to no clean water, and bodies are now often left to rot in piles of rubbish rather than being buried in graves.
And there is a chronic lack of medicines, with doctors being left with no choice but to amputate limbs to stop disease.
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It is estimated at least 90 per cent of the buildings in the city have either been destroyed or damaged – and at least 300,000 civilians have fled or been killed.
Now, the survivors and the sick are under the control of the Russian-backed separatist group, the Donetsk People's Republic.
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