A video released Wednesday shows members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot being beaten by security officials in Sochi as they tried to film a music video at the port of the city that is hosting the Winter Olympics . The apparent attack happened just a day after band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , as well as journalists and Russian human rights activists , were detained for several hours at a police station located just a few miles from the Olympic Park . A YouTube video of the new incident shows band members arriving at the port , surrounded by photographers . The women don ski masks in front of a Sochi 2014 sign and , as they began to perform , one band member is immediately pepper sprayed at close range by a man wearing the traditional headgear of the Cossacks . Some of the women are then struck with a baton before several Cossacks descend on them , shoving and violently removing their ski masks . One of the band members is thrown to the ground by the security men , who also beat a photographer . After the women were beaten and walked away from the port , the security men are seen on the video shoving and beating two other men . The band said it was trying to perform a new song called `` Putin teaches us to love our motherland '' at the main port in Sochi . 'You sold yourselves to the Americans ' Uniformed Cossacks in traditional fur hats and uniforms have accompanied Russian police as a colorful addition to the massive security presence around the Winter Games . Tolokonnikova said on her Twitter account that Cossacks beat the band with billy clubs and pepper spray . Aisya Krugovikh , a member of the band 's entourage , said that during the altercation , some Cossacks yelled that Pussy Riot members should `` shut their mouths , '' adding `` you sold yourselves to the Americans . '' CNN has repeatedly tried to contact Russian city officials by telephone and e-mail for comment on the allegations . Among those apparently wounded in Wednesday 's clash was a Russian artist named Alexei Knyebnikovsky , who Krugovikh said was bleeding from the face . Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina published photos on their Twitter accounts of bruises on Tolokonnikova 's chest and a man with blood on his face `` after an attack by Cossacks . '' Tolokonnikova also tweeted she was at a Sochi hospital taking care of her husband , who she wrote had `` lost vision '' due to pepper spray from Cossacks . The previous day , band members were detained by police , who said they were investigating a theft at the hotel where the band was staying . Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova , as well as the journalists and activists , were released without charges , but they said they were beaten while in custody . On Wednesday , Tolokonnikova 's husband , Petr Verzilov , told CNN the band had been detained and questioned by Russian security forces three times during a three-day visit to the Olympic city . `` Obviously , they are trying to let us know that we 're not welcome here , '' Verzilov said Tuesday in an interview with CNN . `` But we treat Sochi as part of Russia and according to Russian law any Russian citizen can go anywhere . '' In Sochi for protests . The band members were in Sochi to protest what they said was the lack of freedom of speech and to record the music video critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin . Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina had been imprisoned for nearly two years after being convicted of `` hooliganism '' and inciting religious hatred for performing a punk song slamming Putin in a Moscow cathedral and then posting a video of it online . Since their release , just before the Olympic Games began , they have spoken to journalists about their time behind bars , describing the conditions as squalid and their treatment by guards as demeaning and inhumane . A third member of Pussy Riot , Yekaterina Samutsevich , was released in 2012 . This month , other band members said Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were no longer part of the group . But Verzilov said Tuesday that was n't true .
Video shows men in Cossack uniforms beating , pepper spraying band members . Attackers hit the women with batons , tore off their ski masks , the video shows . Score: 6 CNN is trying to get comment from Russian authorities .