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Vladimir Putin’s army was filmed torturing their very own soldiers to curb desertion from the deadly war, while captured Ukrainians are shipped to gulags known for inhumane treatment.
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine dragging on for nearly 4 years now, Putin’s war machine must be always fed with latest soldiers, a lot of them young conscripts.
As many sent to the frontline face almost certain death, some try to escape to the opposite side.
Not making it through means a fate almost worse than death within the hands of their very own troops.
Chilling footage filmed contained in the Russian army has emerged showing horrific details of what happens to those considered traitors, and that is more likely to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Within the video, a half-naked man, regarded as a Russian soldier, is trapped inside a automobile tyre within the snow together with his hands tied.
The soldier cries as his commander accuses him of in search of to flee and rants: ‘What, you f*****g b*****, do you wish to f*** off? Do you wish to f*** off…..?
The sobbing fighter pleads: ‘Sorry, Commander, I won’t, I’m sorry…..’
Inside Russian torture gulags for Ukrainians
Ukrainian soldiers and civilians captured by Putin’s army can be taken to one in every of the over 300 detention facilities, which have mushroomed in Russia because the war began.
Torture of detainees is alleged to be a norm somewhat than an exception, in accordance with human rights groups.
Those that have managed to go away alive have recalled extensive torture methods inflicted on them commonly, including waterboarding, electric shocks and getting used as ‘human furniture’.
Viktok Biletskyi, a soldier within the Ukrainian 406th Separate Artillery Brigade, described what happened to his cellmate Danylo: ‘They put a gas mask on Danylo and electrocuted him to make him suffocate faster, but as soon as he began to lose consciousness, they took off the gas mask. They didn’t let him die: they wanted him to suffer.’
In an infamous detention facility, SIZO-2 in Taganrog, Ukrainians are reportedly subjected to a way generally known as ‘call to Putin’ or ‘call to Lenin.’
It involves a Soviet-era phone, which is attached to the prisoner’s earlobes, nose or genitals with wires to manage electric shocks.
Sites thought to have been used as ad hoc torture facilities have also been uncovered in Ukrainian towns and cities occupied by the Russian army.
In Snihurivka, Ukraine, locals reported that the basement of a restaurant was used to torture captives.
In Kherson, prosecutors said 30 people were held within the basement of an office constructing for 2 months, where plastic ties for torture were later found.
The Russian war of aggression continues to inflict death and destruction across Ukraine, with regular air strikes leaving people without heat, power and water in the midst of the winter.
The UN has warned of ‘widespread and systematic’ torture inflicted on Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
Around 15,000 Ukrainian civilians are estimated to be detained in Russia because the start of the war, with nearly 2,000 kept at detention centres.
Russia has seen more casualties than in some other conflict before for its army, with almost 1.2 million soldiers wounded, killed and missing since February 2022, in accordance with estimates by US-based think tank CSIS.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Ukrainian soldiers are thought to have been killed, wounded and missing.
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