Pussy Riot released their first video since two of their members were released from jail as part of an amnesty.

The Pussy Riot video was taken at the Olympics in Sochi on Wednesday when six members of the band  were attacked and beaten by Cossack auxiliary police when they tried to stage a protest against Russia President Putin.

The video shows Russian Cossacks attacking punk band Pussy Riot with whips and pepper spray while they were setting up to perform in downtown Sochi.

Six members of Pussy Riot, five women and one man, are seen pulling out a guitar and microphone when at least 10 Russian militia jumped on them. The punk band members were  wearing their trademark colorful balaclavas.

The band, including the newly freed Nadia Tolokonikova and Masha Alyohkina, were about to sing a song satirizing President Vladimir Putin when they were accosted.  Tolokonnikova was knocked to the ground and hit with a whip in the video.

For protest group Pussy Riot is turned from a public relations stunt about the country's stamping on human rights to an example of those violations in Russia.

The natural irony of the situation is captured in all its less-than glory.

The members are beaten by Cossacks right by a wall covered in the Sochi Games logos.

The song was called "Putin will teach you how to love your Motherland."

And then the Cossacks showed what that education was going to be.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams says the governor of the Krasnodar region apologized for the attack. They promise the incident will be investigated.

Adams says he "found the pictures and the video very unsettling."

Tolokonnikova tweeted that her husband, Pyotr Verzilov, was taken to the hospital, blinded by the pepper spray.

Sochi environmental activist David Khakim tweeted "We were attacked by 10 Cossacks and men in civilian clothes."

The Cossacks have been used to protect the ruling interests since the days of the Czar, when they rode horses and patrolled Russia's borders. The Cossacks are remembered in history for leading pogroms against Jews.