Gruesome footage from Russia allegedly shows a friend breaking the arm of a Russian reservist with a sledgehammer so he cannot be sent to the front lines of the Ukraine war.
Kremlin officials have warned against conscripts mutilating themselves or asking others to break their bones after Putin imposed partial mobilisation last week to bolster his troops on the ground.
While some reacted by immediately fleeing the country, others resorted to drastic measures and tried to injure themselves to avoid the horrors of war.
Friend uses sledgehammer to break arm of Putin conscript
Gruesome footage from Russia allegedly shows a friend breaking the arm of a Russian reservist with a sledgehammer
Kremlin officials have warned against conscripts mutilating themselves or asking others to break their bones
The video shows a man wielding a long-handled sledgehammer which he appears to smash into the arm of the would-be mobilised reservist.
The draftee holds his left arm out on a bench, and covers his face with his other hand as the heavy blow is struck.
After the hit he gets up and swears while hanging his arm down limp, while the friend who struck him vanishes.
The man who struck him is then heard saying: 'Kolyan, is everything all right? F***, yeah?'
A woman's voice says: 'Why did he run away?'
The draftee says: 'He promised to strike me.'
Two women then inspect his limp arm as one asks: ' Was it hard? [But] did he fail to break your arm?'
After the hit he gets up and swears while hanging his arm down limp, while the friend who struck him vanishes
It is not clear in the end if the arm was broken by the heavy-looking blow nor whether any injury saved him from being called up to Putin's army
The sledgehammer man is heard asking: 'What do you mean? I didn't…..?'
It is not clear in the end if the arm was broken by the heavy-looking blow nor whether any injury saved him from being called up to Putin's army.
Other Russian men are seeking to flee their homeland to countries as far afield as Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
After a counteroffensive by Ukraine this month dealt Moscow's forces heavy battlefield setbacks, Russia said it would call up 300,000 reservists to join the fight.
It also warned it could resort to nuclear weapons.
That partial mobilization is deeply unpopular in some areas, however, triggering protests, scattered violence, and Russians fleeing the country by the tens of thousands.
Video in Link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cript-asks-friend-break-arm-SLEDGEHAMMER.html
Kremlin officials have warned against conscripts mutilating themselves or asking others to break their bones after Putin imposed partial mobilisation last week to bolster his troops on the ground.
While some reacted by immediately fleeing the country, others resorted to drastic measures and tried to injure themselves to avoid the horrors of war.
Friend uses sledgehammer to break arm of Putin conscript
Gruesome footage from Russia allegedly shows a friend breaking the arm of a Russian reservist with a sledgehammer
Kremlin officials have warned against conscripts mutilating themselves or asking others to break their bones
The video shows a man wielding a long-handled sledgehammer which he appears to smash into the arm of the would-be mobilised reservist.
The draftee holds his left arm out on a bench, and covers his face with his other hand as the heavy blow is struck.
After the hit he gets up and swears while hanging his arm down limp, while the friend who struck him vanishes.
The man who struck him is then heard saying: 'Kolyan, is everything all right? F***, yeah?'
A woman's voice says: 'Why did he run away?'
The draftee says: 'He promised to strike me.'
Two women then inspect his limp arm as one asks: ' Was it hard? [But] did he fail to break your arm?'
After the hit he gets up and swears while hanging his arm down limp, while the friend who struck him vanishes
It is not clear in the end if the arm was broken by the heavy-looking blow nor whether any injury saved him from being called up to Putin's army
The sledgehammer man is heard asking: 'What do you mean? I didn't…..?'
It is not clear in the end if the arm was broken by the heavy-looking blow nor whether any injury saved him from being called up to Putin's army.
Other Russian men are seeking to flee their homeland to countries as far afield as Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
After a counteroffensive by Ukraine this month dealt Moscow's forces heavy battlefield setbacks, Russia said it would call up 300,000 reservists to join the fight.
It also warned it could resort to nuclear weapons.
That partial mobilization is deeply unpopular in some areas, however, triggering protests, scattered violence, and Russians fleeing the country by the tens of thousands.
Video in Link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cript-asks-friend-break-arm-SLEDGEHAMMER.html
