Russian brutally batters orphaned baby bear over the head with metal pipe - VIDEO

Shocking footage of the incident shows a Russian man striking the cub with the 5ft pipe as his friend looks on and laughs.   The young bear had been foraging for food with its sibling in woods near an oil field in Khanty-Mansiysk, western Serbia, when it was approached by two men drinking from large beer bottles. The cubs had lost their mother just weeks earlier.The video, which was filmed by a man working at the Priobskoye oil field, in Khanty-Mansiysk, western Siberia, was met with widespread outrage after it was uploaded to YouTube earlier this month.The cameraman, known only as Alexey, said that the cubs, who were recently orphaned, had grown used to being fed by him and his colleagues. The cub that was attacked has not been seen since.Speaking to the Siberian Times, Alexey explained that the animals were both very comfortable interacting with humans - even allowing the oil field workers to put collars on their necks.He was filming the animals as they left the woods when two drunken men, drinking from large bottles of beer, stepped out a car and approached the animals. He said: 'The sickening moment was filmed when both cubs came out to eat, and one of the oil workers decided to film them eating, not expecting this drunk scumbag to do what he has done.'Perhaps a maximum punishment he will get will be a fine for being violent towards animals.'His hope of finding the culprits worked and the Khanty-Mansiysk Nature Protection Watchdog revealed the pair, one a Ukrainian citizen, had been quickly identified and had pleaded guilty.Alexey added: 'They said they had let the cub go and it got better but no one ever saw it again after that incident and now only one bear gets out to eat.'  Yugra Police Office confirmed that a criminal case on animal cruelty has been opened against Igor Nikitenko, a 28-year-old from Langepas and currently living in Sibirsky village, and 25-year-old Ukrainian Yuri Rysakov, who has lived in Yugra since March 2013.A spokesperson added: 'Nikitenko came to the police and wrote a confession.' (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az