MP Kira Rudyk, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, said in an interview with CBS News yesterday that sexual violence is “systematic in all Russianoccupied territories” and that she has heard reports of women becoming pregnant from their rapists. Today the invasion of Ukraine completes 50 days.
“Rape is used as a weapon of war in Ukraine to break our spirits, humiliate us and show us that we can be powerless to protect our women and children and their bodies,” said Kira, who hopes that she has collected evidence and testimonies Criminals are on trial.
In the beginning we worked to ensure that the women were safe and that they could get medical help. And I can say that some of them actually got pregnant by Russian soldiers who raped them. MP Kira Rudyk, Member of Parliament of Ukraine
The MP said she visited the city of Bucha, where hundreds of bodies were found after Russian troops withdrew, and said she used a combination of phone records and documents left behind “to get the first and last names of the soldiers who died.” these have committed crimes.” Crimes”. “We are now gathering more and more evidence and information about them,” she added.
She reported hearing the story of a woman who was raped in front of her family members and a woman who was repeatedly visited and raped for many days.
Kira said Russian forces used rape as a tool to terrorize people because Ukrainians resisted the invasion. “They are trying to find ways to break us. Well it doesn’t work now. It just infuriates us and attracts more and more people who want to fight and protect our peaceful cities from this atrocity,” she said.
According to CBS, aid organizations are working to send out emergency kits to meet the medical needs of these women and to facilitate evidence gathering.
The lawmaker said that while she hopes her work will help bring about justice, sexual violence as a tool of war will endure as long as the conflict lasts. “The only way to stop atrocities is to end the war,” she said.