A grief-stricken mother 'lived with her son's corpse for 11 days' in Ukraine.

Neighbours at the apartment block in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, Odesa Oblast, called city police over the revolting smell of rotting flesh coming from the woman's flat.

Bodycam footage shows officers being led around the chaotically neglected apartment by the resident on March 19.

Shuffling around in oversized slippers and a stained T-shirt, she leads them into the sitting room and shows them a bump under a hastily thrown blanket on the sofa.

Underneath the makeshift shroud was the body of her son, who had died 11 days earlier, on March 8.

The Municipal Guard of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi said that 'even the experienced responders were shocked by what they saw'.

The names and ages of the woman and her deceased son have not been disclosed. Officials said the woman was elderly and lived with her dog.

Police are investigating the death.