A new video has emerged highlighting the barbarism of Vladimir Putin’s army, showing a near-naked refusenik soldier being made to eat dirt by his commander.
The serviceman, who is wearing only underpants, has been thrown in a pit and appears to have broken ribs.
His commander in Russia’s 82nd Motor Rifle Regiment – military unit 52033 – taunts and tortures him.
The refusenik soldier is believed to have run away before being caught and punished in the torture pit.
In the video, his commander is heard shouting: ‘Come on, you ****ing ****, how are you feeling?’ before the soldier replied: ‘I feel sick.’
‘Turn your face this way, ****. Come on, get on your knees, you ****!’
He was ordered to express his regret for seeking to flee the cannon fodder frontline in Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
‘Tell the lads’ families and friends what you want to say,’ barked the unidentified commander.
‘I’d like to apologise to their families…’ he begins to say before the commander barks:
‘What the ****, apologise? Are you a ****ing idiot, you ****ing moron?’
He is then forced to eat dirt in the squalid hole he has been thrown into.
‘Eat the dirt, you *****! Eat it, eat it, eat it, you ****ing *****. You dog, you *****. ‘Come on, come on. Since you’re a dog, go on, have a walk, crawl around on all fours.’
The serviceman pleads: ‘My ribs hurt,’ before the commander begins to hurl a tirade of insults and threats at the man.
‘**** your ribs, for ****’s sake! Tomorrow you’ll go on a raid with a pancake, you ****ing *****!’
A pancake is a mine which could explode and kill him at any moment at any moment.
Such raids carry a high risk of death from Ukrainian forces defending their country’s territory.
The footage is the latest in a wave of videos released on social media platforms such as Telegram depicting Putin’s commander’s torturing their soldiers.
The Daily Mail last month compiled a series of graphic videos showing commanders beating and electrocuting their own troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud, tying them naked to trees in sub-zero temperatures and even making them fight to the death.
Other footage shows injured soldiers on crutches being sent back to the frontline. In separate clips, troops sheltering in Ukrainian dugouts film themselves surviving on stolen potatoes because their own army has not supplied them with food.
Commanders are sending their men into so-called ‘meat storm’ battles, likened to suicide missions, where troops are thrown at Ukrainian positions until they run out of ammunition.
Those who flee or refuse orders face brutal punishment.
One video shows two naked men lying in a pit as their commander screams at them and fires bullets into the ground nearby. ‘Lay there for a few more days until you understand how to follow orders,’ the commander shouts.
Another shows two men forced to crawl through mud while commanders kick dirt at them and strike them in the head. The commander is heard yelling ‘are you still going to be sick?’ while beating him.
One clip shows a middle-aged soldier chained by the neck inside a box while his commander taunts him with food.
‘Are you hungry?’ the commander asks, before flinging a plate of meat and bread at his head and pouring water over him.
‘Eat, you dog. You’re going to die there, you know,’ the commander jeers while hitting the man.
Another video shows half-naked men chained to a tree. ‘These are our dogs who ran away from us,’ a commander is heard saying, ‘but we caught them’. He then forces the two soldiers to bark like dogs before urinating on them.
In another clip, reportedly from the 132nd Brigade, two terrified soldiers are duct-taped to a tree. One has a bucket placed over his head, which a commander repeatedly kicks.
The commander shouts ‘why did you refuse orders,’ while repeatedly hitting the man. He then turns to the other man, an elderly soldier, and says you’re going to be shot, before urinating on the younger man.
One video shows a middle-aged soldier being beaten while accused of theft. Commanders write ‘I’m a thief’ across his chest in black marker and force him, dressed like a clown, to dance as they jeer.
In a different disturbing clip, a man screams and writhes on the floor as he is repeatedly electrocuted by laughing soldiers.
