25 women between the ages of 16 and 25 were held captive in the basement of a house and systematically raped by Russian soldiers. Between them, Nine are now pregnant. It is the latest testament to the horrors of Bucha, the Ukrainian city occupied by Russia and now liberated by the Ukrainian army.
The news was confirmed by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament Lyudmyla Denisova in a post on Facebook. “The Russian soldiers told them that to prevent them from having Ukrainian children, they would rape them to the point that they would never want to have sexual contact with a man again,” he told the BBC. “A 25yearold woman called to tell us that his 16yearold sister had been raped on the street outside her home. He said they shouted that this would happen to all Nazi prostitutes.
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At least 25 women and girls as young as 14 were raped by Russians in a basement in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant. Russian soldiers said: “They would rape her to the point where they would no longer want sexual contact with any man in order to prevent her from having Ukrainian children.”
Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) April 12, 2022
A horror within a horror: A few days after Bucha’s liberation, testimonies about torture and sexual violence during the days of occupation keep appearing. The Ukrainian government is working to listen to the victims and reconstruct the truth.
Dozens of complaints collected from NGOs
There is a lot of evidence for this rape was used systematically as weapon of war by the Russian army. He said so Sima Sami BahousUN Director for Women addresses the Security Council while Kateryna Cherepacha, President of the human rights group The street Ukraineclaimed to have received dozens of impeachment calls against Moscow troops and complaints via telegram.
Stories of pain that tell how even for those who managed to survive it can seem impossible to move on. Stories like that of ann, (fantasy name), 50, a resident of a village 70 km from Kyiv, who said that on March 7 a foreign soldier broke into her home, put a gun to her head and took her to a house nearby . After raping her, 4 other soldiers came and took him away. When she returned home, she saw that her husband was injured: “He tried to run after me to save me but he was hit by bullets,” he said. He died a few days later because they could not go to the hospital and stayed at a neighbor’s house as refugees.
Dasha’s complaint, 16 years old “They interrogated my family and took me away”
Another story is that of Dasha, 16, resident of a village near Krasniva, occupied on March 13. On that day, she had come out of the basement to which she and her family had fled to get food and was approached by two soldiers. “At first they were quite normal, says the girl in the build. “Then they started drinking and started looking for young women. Some even grandmothers ». Dasha said Russian soldiers interrogated her family in the basement and then took them away.
“I told him I had it 16 years old and I was pregnant. I told him I’m in my sixth month. But he said that nothing would happen to the child during this phase,” says the young woman. According to the girl, the drunk soldier’s comrade tried to stop the colleague, then gave up and said he was back half an hour later. After the violence, the soldier took her to a nearby house, but when he tried to rape her again, he was stopped by other soldiers. Two soldiers then took the girl home and said they would take care of the matter and shoot the rapist, but a few days later he denied everything. When Dasha and her family tried to flee the village, she was prevented from doing so. They only managed to escape after being recaptured by the Ukrainians.
Zelenskyj: “Investigations continue”
Yesterday Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of carrying out “hundreds of rapes,” including sexual assaults on children. Talking to the Lithuanian Parliament Zelensky He said: “Investigations into war crimes committed by Russia continue in the areas liberated from the occupiers. New mass graves are found almost every day. Field reports are collected. tens of thousands of victims. Hundreds of cases of torture. Bodies continue to be found in drains and basements. Hundreds of rapes were recorded, including those of girls and very young children. even a child”