A top propagandist for Russian President Vladimir Putin has been chucked in the army's “Punishment Pit” on the Ukraine front line for trying to book a few days leave.
The wife of former Russian news presenter Ilya Andreev has told how her husband is now deep inside a pit days after asking for leave. Andreev quit his job pushing Kremlin-backed propaganda earlier this year as he no longer wanted to do so, which saw him blacklisted from the industry.
He applied to join Putin's forces in the hope of showing his loyalty to the country, but ended up being immediately sent to the front line instead of being stationed on the outskirts of Moscow which he requested. And now it has gone from bad to worse, as he has been flung into a pit . . . and was then tied to a tree when he dared to escape.
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According to anti-Kremlin Russian news outlet Meduza, his wife said: “I asked them to help, and they responded that they weren’t going to help us and that we were doing illegal things. I said, “What, you think your command is doing legal things?” I explained to them that he was sick and that he needed medical attention. That much was clear from looking at him. They responded, “The Motherland will cure him.”
Video surfaced on social earlier this week showed life inside the pit – which is literally a giant pic in the ground where soldiers are stripped half naked and left to fend for themselves. How long they spend there is unknown, and it is thought that the pit Andreyev is in now has 17 others inside.
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Other reports claim that the soldiers being punished have to fork out 400k rubles, or £3,500, to get out of the pit. A source speaking to Meduza added: “The soldiers held there are threatened, fed irregularly or not fed at all, deprived of bathrooms and basic hygiene products, and tortured.”
Russia has not commented on the pits, or acknowledged their existance.
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