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Kiev police commander: We are investigating cases of raped and killed women
“There was no conscious Russian policy of sexual violence against Ukrainian women. However, we are investigating several cases that emerged in the capital region in March. This is what the commander of the Kyiv district police, General Andriy, said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Nebytov. “We are investigating over twenty incidents of possible sexual violence. I use the conditional on purpose because women and families in general are extremely reluctant to discuss this with investigators,” she added. “We also found several bodies,” he continues, “mostly of young women, undressed, with obvious stab wounds and with their hands tied behind their backs. Our experts perform autopsies to see if they were injured before they were killed. The majority actually appear to have been murdered, possibly by multiple soldiers, after the rape or repeated rapes.
For investigations “we have recordings of telephone conversations. Women don’t come forward out of shame, but talk about it with friends and relatives. In addition, we have the tapes of conversations between Russian soldiers captured by our intelligence service. Among the cases identified is that of “Marina, 34, from the village of Bogdanivka near Brovary, east of Kyiv. Her husband, who tried to defend her, was killed instantly along with the family’s dogs, and she was raped in front of her threeyearold son. Two Russians had also threatened to kill the child if she resisted. We also know the name of one of the rapists: Mikhail Romanov, who was apparently shot dead by his superiors when they found out about it. But maybe he was killed by our commandos instead.
The commander then explains that the men who tried to defend the women were killed: “Husbands, brothers or parents were killed and in some cases they burned houses to hide the evidence”.
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