Hell on earth in Ukraine. There is no end to the nightmare in the war-torn country as images of dead civilians are followed by more and more allegations of rape of women of all ages, from young girls to elderly women.
Yesterday Ukraine's human rights commissioner Ludmila Denisova reported that Russian soldiers raped underage children in Butchnya.
A 14-year-old girl from the Kiev suburb became pregnant after being raped by five occupiers, the commissioner said via Facebook, adding further that an 11-year-old boy from Butcha was also raped by soldiers who forced his mother to watch by tying her to a chair!
Ms. Denisova called on the United Nations to conduct an investigation into these events, which she called war crimes.
16-year-old girl became pregnant - 78-year-old girl raped
Rape by Russian soldiers was also mentioned by Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military command of the Krivoy Rog region. The victims include a 16-year-old girl, who became pregnant, and a 78-year-old woman, according to the officer.
This information cannot be independently verified.
[BR][BR]Rape also in Irpin
A few days earlier the Daily Mail reported that a grandmother living in Irpin said shesaw several soldiers raping a mother and her 15-year-old daughter.
Calling Russian soldiers "animals", Anna Shevchenko, 63, accused the Kremlin of war crimes and told the Daily Mail, "You wouldn't believe what we experienced there. They shot people who were trying to escape and left them on the street. Drunken Russians were kicking down cell doors and taking women out and raping them in the middle of the street. A girl just 15 years old was raped with her mother by several soldiers."
Two underage sisters were raped in the town of Ivankiv Women shave their heads to make them unattractive
"To escape rape by the Russians, many Ukrainian women cut their hair like the recruits, to avoid being attractive," the mayor of the city of Ivankiv, northwest of Kiev, said with tears in her eyes, revealing to reporters what women, even teenage girls, have experienced at the hands of the Russians.
In order to avoid being caught in the eye of the invaders, they were given male headscarves. Marina Besastna, told a foreign TV network about the dramatic moments the women experienced in her town, saying that "Two sisters, 15 and 16 years old, were raped by Russian soldiers. In one village, two teenage girls were raped... we are talking about girls of 15 and 16, children."
Referring to the tactics used by the Russians to sexually abuse women, Marina Besastna said.
Horror at the revelations
The issue has occupied Ukrainian media outlets that have reported extensively on the problem, including award-winning Russian journalist Nika Melkozerova of the English-language media outlet The New Voice of Ukraine, who has highlighted the chilling nature of the case.
In a new tweet, the journalist, who has written for prominent Western media outlets, writes the following: "Polish journalist asked me if I still consider Russians people. The answer was negative. You cannot be called human when you justify the rape of 16-year-olds, support a dictator who erases a neighbouring nation, and tell husbands to kill and pillage. It may sound harsh, but forgive me."
Over the past month, an unprecedented social and humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in a Ukraine that is counting its wounds. The civilian casualties, the destruction of buildings, the bombings, all bear witness to an unspeakable nightmare.
To this puzzle of drama is added the sexual abuse of girls. According to the Chatham House think tank, evidence of sexual violence has been recorded since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory.
At the same time, Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Irina Venediktova, has spoken out about the charges against a Russian soldier for raping a woman in Kiev. Meanwhile, gang rapes and even sexual violence in front of children have been reported in cities in southern and eastern Ukraine.
Source: protothema.gr
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