Misbehaving Russian troops were tossed in 'pits' at military training grounds for up to a week at a time, a deserted soldier says

• So-called "torture pits" were dug at Russian military training grounds to punish troops, a report said.
• A former soldier told Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team that misbehaving troops were put in pits for up to a week. 
• "People who came back from there didn't mess around anymore," the ex-soldier said, according to the report.

So-called "torture pits" in the ground allegedly exist at two Russian military training grounds to punish rule-breaking troops, according to a report by independent Russian news outlet Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team, an open-source investigative group.