A RUSSIAN exile who witnessed horrifying torture in Russia's gulags and faced numerous assassination attempts has made it his life goal to destroy Putin.

Vladimir Osechkin fled Russia and now lives under police protection as an enemy of the state after exposing the Kremlin's torturous ways.

Now residing in France, Osechkin works daily to post horrific videos and photos detailing the methods used by Russians to make life a living hell for prisoners and Ukrainians.

In 2011, the human rights activist created the website Gulagu.net – where he posts evidence of crimes in the Russian Federationorchestrated by those within it.

Gulagu has revealed video footage of rape, torture and beatings in Russian prisons.

Speaking to The Sun, Osechkin described the prison system as "the conveyor belt of torture".

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Prisoners are filmed lying handcuffed on the floor as officers stand over them and beat them senselessly.

In another video, a male prisoner is seen tied to a bed and tortured by officers, who beam as they inflict pain on the helpless victim.

One former Russian prisoner, Alexander Zakamsky, said: "They beat me with truncheons, they beat me with a stun gun on my genitals.

"This went on for two to three hours. They forced us to sing songs and tell jokes."

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Zakamsky wouldn't live to see the outside of a Russian prison cell.

He was found dead in a cell, and his wife Elizaveta believes the FSB tortured him to death.

Photos of his body reveal countless bruises and cuts across his body, which Elizaveta has shared online and reported to the investigative committee in Russia.

But she was forced into exile for questioning her husband's death.

Osechkin tried to work in Russia and better his country after hearing horror tales from prisoners.

He even headed the Working Group on the Protection of Prisoners' Rights at the State Duma, before being labelled as a threat to Putin.

Officers raided Osechkin's Moscow home in 2015, confiscating hard drives and all documents of evidence he had collected for the last three years.

Hours later, he receiving a harrowing call.

He told The Sun: "Someone called me and said, 'now you understand we're serious, spend this weekend with your family, and after this weekend, on September 14, we will wait for you in the administration of the president'."

Osechkin and his wife made the decision to leave Russia and escape the threats of government.

They first fled to Turkey, then north Cyprus, before seeking political asylum in France, where they've lived with their two children for almost a decade now.

But after escaping the terrors of his home country, an even greater scale of torture was unleashed on Ukraine – and Osechkin received worrying news.

"In March 2022, I received the first messages from our sources in Russia, who before being arrested, sent me information that Putin created the first three concentration camps for Ukrainian people," he said.

"And in these concentration camps, they take the practice of the conveyor of the tortures which they have practised for the last 10 years against Russians.

"And now they are torturing Ukrainians."

Vladimir shared the story of Ukrainian soldier Alexander, who spent nine months in the concentration camps in Kursk and Tula in 2022.

Horrific photos show Alexander, a formerly robust soldier, turn into skin and bones with a broken nose and head injury – another victim of Putin's prison system.

Putin's system of torture and abuse will only be stopped when the network of colonels, generals, majors, the FSB, the prison system and the army are dismantled, Osechkin said.

But Russia's sprawling prison system houses more than 400,000 prisoners and employs more than 158,000 prison staff.

Standing up to such a large organisation is difficult, but Osechkin works each day at "great risk" to expose the corruption deep in the heart of Russia.

He said: "The French services protect me and my family, but in some days, weeks, or months, the special forces of the Russian Federation will kill me.

"I want to say what Gulagu does to save my name and reputation because it’s important to my children and the next generation of my family."

Despite outcry and mounting evidence of torture in the Russian prison systems, authorities still vehemently deny any involvement in the torture of prisoners.

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Osechkin told The Sun: "I am Russian, it is my tragedy. I didn’t live in Russia past 2015, I don’t pay money to this regime, but I am Russian.

"I want to do all my best to stop other Russians, who with Putin are killing and torturing thousands."

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