Russian soldiers entered the house and killed her husband, then pointed the gun at her head and raped her several times while her 4yearold son cried in the next room. It’s the horror told the Times by a Ukrainian woman living in Shevchenkove, near Kyiv. The victim preferred to remain anonymous under the pseudonym Natalia. Her story joins that of many women fleeing the war: many denounce instances of sexual violence at the hands of the invading army men. An alarm that also reached the authorities: in addition to the ongoing investigations by the Ukrainian Attorney General, the Member of the Ukrainian Parliament was at the beginning of the month Lesia Vasylenko spoke to British officials about the increasing reports of rape.
The murder of her husband, then violence: the story of Natalya
Natalya’s nightmare continues 9th March. According to his report in the Times, a few days earlier two Russian soldiers had killed the family’s dog while walking near the house. Then they returned, this time to kill her husband: “I heard a shot, the sound of the gate opening, and then the sound of footsteps in the house. I yelled, “Where’s my husband?” Then I looked out and saw him lying on the ground by the gate. A younger boy put his gun to my head and said, “I shot your husband because he’s a Nazi.”
Natalya told the Times she told her 4 year old son hiding in the room where they keep the boiler, and then being repeatedly violently born while her son cried in the next room. “He told me to undress,” he says. “Then they raped me one after the other. He didn’t care that my son was crying in the boiler room. They told me to shut him up and come back. The whole time they held the gun to my head and laughed at me.
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After the episode, Natalya managed to escape with her son, whom she hasn’t told yet that his father is dead: “We can’t bury him, we can’t reach the village because the village is still occupied,” she said.
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Since the beginning of the conflict, reports of rapes by Russian soldiers have been the focus of Ukrainian authorities and international attention. “We have reports of women being raped by a group. These women are usually the ones who can’t date. Some are elderly,” Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko told the Guardian. “Most of these women were executed for the crime of rape or committed suicide”.
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