According to Ilya Elokhin, a former member of Russia’s ‘Somali Battalion,’ Russian soldiers played with the heads of decapitated Ukrainians as if they were playing football.
Sick Russian fighters played soccer with severed heads of Ukrainian soldiers
by Will Stewart for Daily Express U.S.
The shocking claims were made by a qualified primary school teacher, Ilya Elokhin, 34, who served in Vladimir Putin’s forces before fleeing the war to Armenia.
An escaped Russian soldier has told how his comrades kicked the severed heads of Ukrainian troops killed in the war – as if they were footballs.
Qualified primary school teacher Ilya Elokhin, 34, served in Vladimir Putin’s forces before fleeing the war to Armenia.
His macabre duty as a military clerk was to photograph the corpses, and describe the fatal injuries they received.
“They brought in Ukrainians, Germans, French,” he said. “The dead Ukrainians would be brought in, unloaded from the car, and kicked around.”
“If a person was too decomposed, they would tear off his head and play I saw it all.”
One soldier was a freed convict – with the call sign Ivanych – who was accused of cannibalism involving the dead soldiers, he said.
He also told how the Russian soldiers were executed by their own side, for example escapees and those who refused to follow orders.
Elokhin’s duty had been to “dig through the guts of dead, decomposed people” to find lost army tags, then register the details of fallen soldiers. Afterwards, the bodies were taken to Donetsk, to be stored in morgues.
The former teacher served with “military unit 71443” in the occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is part of the co-called ‘Somali’ battalion, commanded by Mikhail Tolstykh, described as a “brutal” commander. There Elokhin said he faced bullying and abuse.
He was “forced to do all the paperwork” for his commanders, who “humiliated him, beat him, and threatened him with assaults and ‘zeroing out’,” according to a report by Vot-Tak TV.
Soldiers who defied their commanders or tried to escape were reportedly beaten by Putin’s troops.
“A hole two to three metres deep was dug next to the headquarters building,” said the report citing Elohim. “In addition to Elokhin’s defenders, those who most often ended up there were those who tried to escape or did not want to follow orders.
“Before being put in the hole, they were tied to a chair, doused with water, and beaten with a stun gun and a stick.
Some were “zeroed out” on the spot.
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