Official investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors
Interview with the British daily newspaper
“We will never be silent”
▲ A woman who appears to be a resident of an apartment that was shattered by Russian shelling in the port city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine on the 17th (local time) is wiping away tears. Mariupol City Hall, which has been under siege by Russian forces on the 17th, said on social media that “about 80% of residential buildings have been destroyed.” 2022.3.18 AP Yonhap News
Since the invasion of Russia on the 24th of last month, the victims of sexual assault by Ukrainian women have continued. The widows who lost their husbands and the elderly who could not evacuate were also targeted. Sex crimes during war are war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law. “We will never be silent,” said Ukrainian lawmaker Maria Menzenzeva, who condemned the recent sexual assault on the outskirts of Kiiu.
“There are reports of women being gang-raped,” said Resia Vasilenko, speaking to British lawmakers earlier this month. “These women are generally the ones who can’t get out, the elderly,” she said.
As a victim, 33-year-old Natalia (pseudonym), who fled from Kiiu to Ternopil, reported the horrific atrocities committed by the Russian army. He hung a white sheet in front of the door as a civilian marker, but to no avail. The door shattered with the sound of gunshots, and the dog was shot dead. The commander flirts with his husband, Natalya, if it wasn’t for the war he would have had an affair with you, and the soldiers he dragged killed his husband, saying, “Your husband is a Nazi”.
Natalya had to protect her young son, who was only four years old. Russian soldiers aimed a gun at Natalia’s head and raped her in turns, and since then they broke into her house and raped her three times. Taking advantage of the Russian army’s drunken days, Natalia took her son out of the house. His son still believes his dad is alive.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Irina Benedikova said that an official investigation was launched into Russian soldiers who murdered Natalia’s husband and sexually assaulted her. Sadly, her husband’s body has not yet been recovered. The Russian army is still occupying the village. “I don’t know how I’m going to live with all these things, but I don’t think we can sell the house that her husband built for us,” Natalia said.
▲ Ukrainian ‘Mojeong’ wrapped her son first at the sound of shelling
A woman is lying on the ground with her son wrapped around her body, startled by the sound of shelling, on the road in Mariupol, a port city in southern Ukraine, on the 23rd (local time). The Russian army is besieging the port city of Mariupol, demanding surrender and pouring out a concentrated attack. 2022.3.24 Mariupol Archyde.com Yonhap News
“Rape even hidden women”According to Ukrainian local journalist Euromaidanpress (EP), Anastasia Taran (30, female) recently escaped from Irfin on the outskirts of Kiiu, the capital, and said, “The town occupied by Russia was like hell. “Russian soldiers raped women hiding in cellars and opened fire on innocent civilians.”
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmitro Kuleva, said: “We have received reports that Russian soldiers sexually abused civilians in Ukraine.” “I heard through an acquaintance that young women in the middle of the streets of Kherson were being raped by Russian soldiers,” she added, a woman in her 20s who had fled her hometown after living in the southern city of Kherson.
A video has been released showing a bundle of condoms being found by a Russian soldier captured in Ukraine. “He escaped from Irphine with his husband, but we were left with passports, a few personal documents and three cats,” Taran said. . I am still afraid to go out.”
Reporter Kim Yu-min