BARBARIC torture punishments are being handed out by Russian commanders to their own troops accused of desertion and failing to follow orders.
Chilling footage shows one mutinous fighter taped to a tree upside down in the biting cold near Vladimir Putin’s cannon fodder front line.
Another – also tethered to a tree – is forced to eat snow by his superior officer.
The frightened and shaking men wore only underwear after being stripped of their winter uniforms.
Their foul-mouthed commander is heard barking: “[They] wanted to **** off from their positions, not follow orders.”
Forcing snow into the mouth of the refusenik, the raging officer adds: “Eat, you ****ing *****.”
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One of the taped men pleads in desperation, “it won’t happen again” and “I’m sorry, please”.
But he is told by the commander: “You need to work, not **** off. Did I tell you where to go?”
The Putin officer taunts the men throughout the footage, mocking their sexuality.
The torture method seems to be popular with Putin’s commanders.
Last week footage released on Telegram showed a “field tribunal” of two men accused of stealing their commanders cannabis, taped to trees in their underwear.
Throughout the raging conflict Vladimir Putin has become increasingly desperate in his bid to defeat Ukraine, often at the expense of his troops.
Wheelchair-bound, amputee and injured soldiers all have been sent to the front line by Putin.
Even workers from Bangladesh have been lured to Russia on the false promise of work, only to be thrust into combat in Ukraine.
The savage penalties come as peace talks continue without a clear signal from Putin that he intends to halt his almost four year invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Generals are ordered to “drive forward” and “invent new types of torture” to keep their exhausted personnel in line, Nevzorov Telegram channel wrote in a post.
Over the weekend new Russian overnight strikes left 80 per cent of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv city and the surrounding region without power in blistering winter cold.
One resident said: “There was no electricity last night, everything was knocked out.
“What could we do? It’s almost 24 hours now, and it’s -18C outside.”
Governor Oleh Syniehubov said “all crews” were at work to resolve the “serious damage”.
Further brutal strikes on Black Sea port Odesa left 22 people injured, officials said.
And there were fears people, including an 86-year-old woman – were trapped after a residential building was hit.
Ukrainian war reporter Denis Kazansky posted: “At night, Russian Nazis carried out attacks on residential buildings in Odesa.
“An entire entrance was destroyed, with people trapped under the rubble.
“Another ritualistic, demonstrative murder.
“They call Odesa a ‘Russian city’ and are deliberately exterminating its residents.”
Serhiy Lysak, head of Odesa’s military administration said shelling damaged infrastructure facilities, residential buildings, a kindergarten, a store, and a construction site.
