A clip from a Russian game show in which a male contestant throws a female competitor to the ground before p*nching her in the face has gone viral.
In the contest, five competitors are standing around a car with at least one hand on a part of the vehicle. In a test of endurance, the last person to remain touching the car will win it as a prize.
The disturbing clip begins as a woman dressed in a thong bikini is taunting the man to her right, waiving a high-heeled shoe in his face and telling him she has a question for him.
He then loses his cool, removes his hands from the car and throws the woman onto the floor, before stepping over her and h!tt!ng her in the face.
As he steps back to the car he says, “There was no need for that.” She responds by calling him a little boy.
Just after the clip, the presenter of the show comes to check on the woman. She gives him a thumbs up but her face is bleeding. The moment of the attack is then replayed in slow-motion, in a sequence that was broadcast on Russian TV.