Vladimir Putin is using Adolf Hitler tactics in his invasion of Ukraine, warns Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

VLADIMIR Putin is using Adolf Hitler tactics in his invasion of Ukraine, says Ben Wallace.

Mad Vlad’s desire to “rub a state from the map”, mass executions, infiltration camps and deportations were straight out the German war leader’s playbook.

Defence Secretary Mr Wallace said the “messages we hear from the Kremlin echo what we heard in the 1930s and 1940s from Nazi Germany”.

He told a conference of the Northern Group of allied nations in Iceland that Russia’s President Putin was shoving troops into a “meat grinder”.

Mr Wallace said Putin had “a desire to use ethnic nationalism to remove people whose identities challenge the current Russia as the Kremlin sees it.”

He said around 80,000 Russians had been killed or injured so far.

He added: “Occupying people who don’t want to be occupied is not an easy thing to do.

“The Nazis learnt that all over Europe.

“I think Russia are finding that in areas already taken.”