Inside Russian military camp from hell where disabled and elderly 'chained like slaves'

Russian troops with 'no fingers' and hobbling connected crutches are being kept successful miserable conditions astatine a subject campy successful Siberia - earlier being shipped disconnected to combat again successful Ukraine

Shocking footage shows the wrong of a brutal Russian 'gulag' wherever disabled and aged troops are 'chained up similar slaves' earlier Putin sends them disconnected to the frontline.

It's the archetypal clip the extracurricular world has been seen down the gates of the hellish subject camp, which is packed with 1,000-plus men and located successful the Yurga, Kemerovo portion of Siberia. The freezing acold penal colony is wherever thousands of fighters are being processed earlier they are sent to fight, contempt being located immoderate 2,200 miles from the struggle portion successful Ukraine.

Many are thought to beryllium those who had antecedently refused to serve, oregon had sustained injuries earlier successful the war. One root told the ASTRA autarkic media outlet that those held successful the campy included radical "without fingers", aged men, and soldiers "on crutches", who are being kept successful appalling conditions and regularly beaten.

Describing however the men are carted astir similar livestock, they said: "They volition transport america nether escort, similar cattle. We person to insulate the wagons astatine our ain expense, they said. Just similar successful 1945, they transported prisoners - conscionable similar that. No mode out... Some already near successful November. There was the archetypal dispatch to Kursk, immoderate person already been killed.”

A serviceman's woman meantime said: "Last week, the subject constabulary bushed up a young lad, 5 against one, reasoning they're tough". Another root said: "A comrade from the portion was turned in. The subject constabulary took him, pepper-sprayed his face, and bushed him."

Some are held successful tents, and portion offenders are kept successful a bunker and a factual level "without nutrient oregon water". A worker said: “They enactment 30 radical per 10 quadrate metres [107 quadrate feet] and fto them spell to the toilet erstwhile a day.… People pee into bottles, and sometimes nether themselves."

Another root said: "The Inquisition utilized to pain dissidents astatine the stake, and present they are taken to [the front]. That is wherefore radical are fleeing, due to the fact that if it is similar that successful Russia, past [at the front] everything is wholly [****ed up]. They archer america straight that we are [facing the end], and galore of those from this portion are already [missing successful action]."

One antheral had been sent distant from the beforehand owed to a aesculapian information and had paperwork from doctors. But a colonel astatine the Yurga campy sent him to the grooming ground, wherever helium had an epileptic acceptable and died.

Others person dropped arsenic overmuch arsenic 2 chromatic portion being starved successful training. A woman said: "My hubby mislaid 15 kilograms. They are fed erstwhile a day. You can't accidental thing against them, due to the fact that you automatically go [a people for attack]. I fearfulness for his life. They are each beaten and battered there. They are not against serving [in the war], but arsenic people. And they are treated determination worse than dogs."

A abstracted video shows soldiers connected crutches being forced backmost to the frontline. Another clip reportedly shows handcuffed Russian soldiers, apt those who had refused to serve, being driven to 1 of the astir unsafe parts of the frontline.