A UKRAINIAN soldier who had his throat slit before being buried alive and crawling for five days back to safety has vowed to return to the front line.

Vladislav, 33, said he and his comrades endured bloodcurdling torture while being held hostage by Putin's "creatures" who mutilated and castrated them.

The brave solider, who is unable to speak, wrote his horrific experiences in a diary which has been shared by his family .

Putin's bloodthirsty forces also gouged out the hostages' eyes, cut off their lips and disfigured their faces, according to Vladislav.

He said he was captured in early August trying to help comrades who had been taken prisoner after losing control of a position near Pokrovsk, on the front line in Donetsk.

Vladislav’s brother Yevhen, said: "The first guys who were c

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