A threatening video has surfaced showing a Russian army soldier asking a friend to break his arm with a hammer to dodge a draft in a war with Ukraine.
RecordingTo whom The Post could not independently attest, he opens with a happening draftee and extends his left hand on a bench, while his friend raises the big hammer to brace the organ.
The dude then takes a hammock and brings the sledgehammer down on Conscript’s arm with a muzzle, before committing a profanity and sniping.
The shirtless soldier stands up and moans in pain, his left hand hanging by his side.
“Kolyan, is everything okay?” The man wielding the sledgehammer asks out of the camera.
A woman asks a friend why he ran away.
The constable is heard saying that his friend had told him that he would break his hand. But after the woman inspects the man’s hand, she says that it doesn’t seem to be broken.
The friend chimes in again, asking: “What do you mean it’s not broken?”
It is not clear from the video whether the hammer strike actually did what Concept expected.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week He was mobilizing at least 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, with reports that military-age men deliberately crippled themselves to avoid the draft.
Two hours after Putin’s flamboyant speech, Google search According to Newsweek, the search engine’s trend data for “how to break an arm at home” is rapidly rising across the country with a rating of 0 to 38.
The mobilization effort has proved deeply unpopular in Russia, which sparked protests and forced thousands of men to flee to neighboring countries.
The Kremlin has reportedly set up draft offices to deter some people from across the border trying to flee amid disturbing claims of being sent to the front lines without any training.