Captured soldier Andrey Ushakov, 20, said he knew of two soldiers who shot and killed themselves on the frontline, while others are shooting themselves to return home injured.

Ben Wallace will use a major speech to say that Putin and his inner circle should share the same fate as the Nazis, who ended up defeated and facing the Nuremberg trials for their atrocities.

Simeon Boikov, the self-styled ‘Aussie Cossack’, held a boozy pro-Russia party on Sydney Harbour with bikies, diplomats and his glamorous wife Katia celebrating Russia’s World War II victory.

Bill Browder won’t tell me the ages of his children or even how many he has. ‘I don’t disclose that for safety reasons,’ he explains.

The clip of Putin was filmed shortly before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. It was reminiscent of a video showing Hitler’s shaking hand as he appeared outside his bunker in 1945.

Sergiy Stakhovsky, who has been ranked as high as 31 in the world and who played in the Australian Open in January, joined the Ukrainian army when Vladimir Putin launched his invasion.