Drug dealer whipped with cable ties and 'beaten to death'

A horrific viral video has emerged showing a drug dealer being whipped with electric cables by pro-Russian rebels in an ISIS-style execution.

In the video the man is shown tied to a wooden post with red tape.

He has multiple lacerations to the back and can be heard begging for his life.

He is heard to say: ‘Stop please! I"ll say what you need. I will call another drug dealer and he will arrive with drugs".

The torture was carried out by a militant identified as ‘Olkhon" in the town of Communar, Donetsk Oblast, in Southe Ukraine.

Olkhon, who comes from the Russian city of Novosibirsk, accuses the man of having a drug dealer"s number on his phone.

He says: ‘Drug dealers and junkies please come here to us, we have a way to deal with people like you. Come to us and we will cure all of you".

He adds that the man will be slaughtered like a dog.

‘See how he has p****d and s*** himself. He thinks we will have some mercy on him, but we will kill him," he says.

The man is reportedly missing and feared dead.

The video was posted online by a community of pro-Russian rebels on the social network VKontakte.