Torture, beatings and abuse.. Russia reveals what its captured soldiers were subjected to in Ukraine

Russian media said that there are video clips broadcast by activists revealing the horrific torture and abuse of prisoners of Russian soldiers at the hands of what they described as "Ukrainian Nazi militants."

Russia Today said that a video clip showed how the Ukrainian militants shot the legs of the Russian prisoners, before dragging them and subjecting them to beatings and abuse to extract information from them.

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, directed the documentation of what he called "all crimes of torture of prisoners of war practiced by the neo-Nazis in Ukraine", and the identification of all those involved to bring them to justice.

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