The action at the Cannes Film Festival lasted only a few seconds: a woman, painted in the national colors of Ukraine, stormed the red carpet on Friday evening, shirtless and wearing blood-red underpants, and yelled in English: “Stop raping us!” The member of the radical feminist collective “Scum” wanted to draw attention to the sexualised violence of the Russian armed forces once morest women in Ukraine. Human rights organizations are saying that the Russian army is using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine.
