A man faces jail in Russia after attacking his wife because 'she no longer scolded him'.

The 33-year-old man broke both her arms, claiming anti-stress medication she had taken meant she underwent a character change and stopped shouting at him.

This left him 'deeply frustrated'.

Her 'lack of a proper reaction' - even when he came home late and drunk - had upset him, he told police.

The man from Leninsk-Kuznetsky in Russia's coal-rich Kemerovo region faces up to five years in jail after attacking his wife with a metal kitchen spatula in domestic violence that led to her broken arms.

Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Siberia, where the attack took place in which a man broke both his wife's arms as she had become 'too calm' and did not shout at him after taking ant-stress medication

'Previously, she had scolded and criticised him for every misdemeanour,' said a report in The Siberian Times.

After treating the woman, doctors called police and the man was held in detention.

'The woman had been taking stress-reducing pills for several weeks which helped her not to react to what her husband said,' explained a spokesman from the regional Interior Ministry.

Police at Leninsk-Kuznetsky. Medics were called to the scene by the husband after the attack, and they later contacted the police who then detained the man

'She didn't even get angry when he came home drunk.

'The man couldn't bear her being so calm and composed - and he attacked her.

'After he broke her arms, he called an ambulance.'

Domestic abuse kills one woman every 40 minutes in Russia, according to estimates.

Metal spatulas like those use by the man to beat his wife who was already so distraught she was taking anti-stress medication before the violent assault

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a controversial amendment into law that decriminalises certain forms of domestic violence in February.

It makes 'moderate' violence within families an administrative, rather than a criminal, offence and it has drawn much criticism in both within the country and internationally.

A hospital in Leninsk-Kuznetsky where an ambulance brought the injured woman

It rules that attacks on spouses or children that cause bruising or bleeding but not broken bones are punishable by 15 days in prison or a fine, if they do not happen more than once a year.

Previously, they carried a maximum jail sentence of two years.