Sickening torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Vladimir Putin’s soldiers is revealed in a shocking new video which has been reported to the UN.

In the extraordinary posthumous letter, Iryna Tsybukh, 25, wrote: ‘To have the strength to be a free person, you need to be brave.’

Bleak footage has revealed Russian troops carrying out drills to use tactical nuclear weapons near Ukraine’s border in response to what the nation claimed were Western ‘threats.’

Despite the Government’s tough talk on sanctions, since the war began it has recruited an extra 100 civil servants to rubber stamp legal licences for rogue Russians looking to spend their seized millions.

Video showed a fire purportedly on a vessel in Sevastopol’s Sukharnaya Bay after explosions were heard in the annexed Crimean naval port.

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stimson, 48, (pictured) travelled to war-torn Donetsk to take up arms for Putin’s marauding forces.

Vladimir Putin has tried to spin Friday’s mass killing on the outskirts of Moscow, which left 139 people dead, in his favour by claiming Volodymyr Zelensky had orchestrated it.

MailOnline explores the dark reality of Russia’s prison system and recaps heinous torture methods used by guards and fellow inmates alike to physically and psychologically break their prey.

Navalny died in the IK-3 penal colony, also known as Polar Wolf, in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Region of Russia , around 1,200 miles from Moscow

Germany’s leader said he wouldn’t deliver long-range missiles as it would require German troops to assist on the ground, arguing that following the UK’s lead would make Germany a ‘participant in the war’