Gruesome footage shows Vladimir Putin’s uniformed thugs forcing wounded soldiers back to war with brutal beatings and threats of rape.
Video shows a military police officer beating a traumatized soldier with a bat before tasing him with a stun gun in Russia’s Tuva region.
The thug, nicknamed ‘Mad’, is seen torturing injured personnel, apparently in an attempt to get them to return to the Ukrainian frontlines.
The male victims are heard being threatened with forced undress and ‘rape’.
One of the soldiers in the video “had a broken spine, his condition is serious,” said social activist Vitaly Borodin, who highlighted the shocking video.
One man is seen carrying a walking stick due to his war wounds.
Ukraine estimates that as many as 812,670 Russians have been killed or injured in nearly three years of grueling conflict.
A wounded soldier is seen cowering on the ground as a military police officer beats him

The soldier then appears to have been zapped with a stun gun at the unnamed facility in Tuva
Russian authorities only acted to investigate the abuse after the images went viral, although frequent complaints of such brutality by Putin’s enforcers go unnoticed.
The regional government insisted it was investigating allegations of gross mistreatment of Russian mobilized men before sending them back to war.
“The government of Tuva has taken charge of investigating incidents involving military personnel from the republic after a number of video recordings were circulated in regional groups on social networks and messengers,” a statement said.
“One of them reports that on January 16, 2025, cases of cruel treatment of contract soldiers in military unit No. 55115, including beatings and the use of electric shocks, were recorded before being sent to the (war) zone.”
Authorities said that “the perpetrators have been identified and preliminary investigations are being conducted against them.”
According to Russia’s Central Military District, the main suspect was “detained and taken into custody.”
Officials said the military unit could be disbanded after the horrific scenes.
Putin’s former speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov – now strongly opposed to the Kremlin dictator – said today: ‘The perpetrator was arrested.

Russian authorities only investigated the torture after the video went viral

An officer of the facility shown carrying a baton. The text over it reads: Procedure before sending a military aircraft from a permanent deployment point to a combat zone (but Ukraine…)

Russia has also long been accused of torturing its Ukrainian prisoners of war
‘Only he was not arrested for assault, but for failing to prevent the leaking of the sensational video.
‘The system has no need for scandals, which disrupt the flow of fresh cannon fodder.
‘A potential ‘hero’ will watch this video and change his mind about going to the front.
‘Is this allowed? Of course not.’
It was alleged that the suspects were assault soldiers seconded to the military police “to ensure public order among those sent to the (war) zone.”
Remote and mountainous Tuva in Siberia is the home region of Putin’s Security Council head Sergei Shoigu, a former defense minister.
Russia has also long been accused of torturing its Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Analysis by Global Rights Compliance in 2023 found that almost half of Ukrainian detainees in camps in Kherson had been subjected to torture and sexual violence.
Analysis of cases in more than 35 identified detention centers found that suffocation, waterboarding, electrocution, beatings and threats of rape are widespread techniques imposed by Russian guards in the occupied region.
Global Rights Compliance’s Mobile Justice Team reviewed the stories of 320 people detained in Kherson with the Ukrainian Office of the Attorney General (OPG), with 43% reporting experiences of torture from their time in captivity.
Those incarcerated in the centers included volunteers, activists, medical leaders, teachers, community leaders, law enforcement officers and military personnel.

A corridor in a place where Ukrainians were held on Pylypa Orlyka Street, where Russians tried to set fires to hide traces of their crimes and burn documents before withdrawing

Ukrainian prisoners were forced to write and learn Russia’s national anthem while in captivity
Wayne Jordash KC, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Global Rights Compliance, said at the time: ‘The tactics of torture and sexual violence uncovered by the Public Prosecution Service from Kherson detention centers indicate that Putin’s plan to eradicate Ukrainian identity a series of crimes reminiscent of genocide.
“The pattern we observe is at least consistent with a cynical and calculated plan to humiliate and terrorize millions of Ukrainian citizens into submission to the Kremlin’s diktat.”
Global Rights Compliance said the reported “patterns” of rape and other sexual crimes against occupied people across Ukraine may indicate a “premeditated plan at the systemic level.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of war crimes in Kherson since at least November 2022.
Since the start of the war in February last year, mass graves have been found all over Ukraine.