A WORLD champion arm wrestler has been jailed in Russia after shattering his ex-wife's skull, jaw, collar bone, and ribs and leaving her for dead.

Spartak Zoloev, 34, was sent to a maximum security prison for six years for the attack on Vandana Dzhioeva, 28, which was witnessed by the couple's four-year-old daughter.

Dzhioeva has only recently begun to attempt to walk again after spending six months in a wheelchair following the assault.

Her daughter, Lyutsia, reportedly believed her mother, left lying in a pool of blood, to be dead, and remains traumatised by the experience.

Speaking recently at a conference focused on combating domestic violence, Dzhioeva described how Zoloev dragged her into her backyard by her hair and kicked her in the head.

“His first punch just smashed my jaw,” she said.

“This man aimed to simply kill me.

“It took the doctors two hours to remove all the pieces of crushed bones from my body.”

Zoloev was the world arm wrestling champion in his weight class in 2014 and is among Europe's top arm wrestlers.

He is also a graduate of Russia’s Interior Ministry Military Institute in the North Caucasus.

He told a court in Vladivostok the assault, which left Dzhioeva in a coma for seven days, had been an "attack of jealously" over his ex-wife's new relationship.

She said her daughter told bystanders: “My mummy died, my daddy killer her.”

“I am a disabled person with a child now," she said.

“Each time I close my eyes, I feel his every strike.

“People like him are like beasts, they must be jailed.”

She said said she had reported earlier attacks to the police but that they had refused to arrest Zoloev because "there were no signs of violence on my face”.

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