He said he was planning on selling the meat to a kebab shop (Picture: east2west news)

A man was caught butchering and skinning a husky dog to reportedly sell the meat to kebab shops.

He was arrested after a group of teenagers witnessed the shocking scene, alerting police in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.

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The man, in his 20s, is named only as Nikolay and was identified as an illegal immigrant from Kazakhstan.

He told police: ‘When I lived in Kazakhstan, there were a lot of dogs, and it was normal to cook the meat on a barbecue and eat them.’


He confessed: ‘I used a wire to strangle the dog.

The husky was strangled and skinned in a park in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk (Picture: east2west news)

He had strung up the carcass on a wall (Picture: east2west news)

‘I was given the animal as payment for a job.’



After one night in the cells he was released and returned to the scene to try and collect the dog’s carcass, which he had strung up on a wall.

He was stopped by animal activists.

He had killed ‘hundreds of dogs’ in the city and sold the meat to a ‘fast food kebab takeaway chain’, he told the campaigners.

The activists are demanding police launch a criminal investigation.

A source said the man could be deported back to Kazakhstan.