HORRIFYING images reveal that Russian soldiers carve swastikas into foreheads of Ukrainian prisoners in harrowing war crime.

       A doctor has claimed that the Russian troops mutilate their captives with the Nazi branding.

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       A doctor shared sick images of swastika carved into Ukrainian prisoner's forehead Credit: East2West 3

       The Russian troops mutilated the victim using a knife and didn't provide any medical care Credit: East2West 3

       Dr Olexandr Turkevych said the hate symbol is a 'direct evidence' of genocide by Russia Credit: East2West

       Pictures show the horrific branding suffered by the Kyiv fighter, who was named only as Serhiy.

       Dr Olexandr Turkevich said he has been treating Serhiy who told him of the painful torture he had to endure at the hands of the Russian army.

       Russian soldiers reportedly threatened to "take him apart piece by piece".

       One of the soldiers told Serhiy: " I want your children to know you're fascist. That's why I am cutting deep".

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       The prisoner had the hate symbol carved into his face while he remained blindfolded with tape.

       Dr Turkevich said: " These photographs show what kind of creatures our men are dealing with at the front."

       He added that the swastika carved with a knife is a "direct evidence" of genocide by the Russians.

       The medic said: "Serhiy had a swastika carved into his forehead by these pig-dogs.

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       "He told how, when they cut his forehead, they said: ' If you were an Azov man, I would take you apart piece by piece'."

       The Azov assault brigade played a key role in the defence of Mariupol and is seen by Russians as having far-right links.

       Russian propaganda relentlessly pushes Vladimir Putin’s twisted message that Ukraine is run by a Nazi government.

       Serhiy was left with nothing to clean up the bleeding wound and didn't receive any medical care for his multiple injuries until he returned back home.

       Dr Turkevich was “infinitely proud” of the work he was able to do to remove the Nazi branding from the man’s forehead.

       The medical procedure is under the Neopalymi aesthetic medicine initiative which aims to help Ukrainian servicemen who have suffered disfiguring injuries or torture in the war.

       Serhiy was captured in the occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine last December.

       He endured two weeks of torture, locked in a basement with no food and brought up only to be beaten unconscious, the Telegraph reported.

       Serhiy was eventually transferred to Chechnya, a republic in Russia, and released in a prisoner swap five months later.

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       Along with Serhiy, another Ukrainian prisoner suffered the mutilation, leaving him with psychological trauma, doctors told the Telegraph.

       The media reported that Serhiy still struggles to talk about his horrifying experience.