"They Crushed Me With The Machine Gun"

A Ukrainian woman ensures that i Russian military You have it raped 13 hours: “They had crushed with the machine gun“. Elena can hardly hold back her tears, the name is made up, but she wants it to denounce what he has suffered: She has been raped for hours since then two Russian soldiers. the told from ZaporizhiaUkrainian city in the southeast of the country, every day it gathers thousands of displaced people fleeingwaiting for take a bus to join the children who, immediately after the start of the war, were sent to Vinnytsia in the center of the country, far from home because it is in the southern Kherson region in the first line of the invasion.

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Elena insists on telling his story of a rape by two of the Russian soldiers who took control of his hometown of Kherson in southern Ukraine. Reported to the Russian Armed Forces by a neighbor like her Wife of a Ukrainian soldierElena, tell them unbearable 13 hours where she was at the mercy of two Russian soldiers. Her story is similar to that of other victims documented by human rights organizations who claim so rape is used how “weapon of war” in Ukraine.

his husband he was already in front, she was about to leave. She realized it had been her bet while waiting in line for the costssomeone said that to the Russians Her husband was a soldier. “I realized they were looking at me out of the corner of their eyes. I quickly left the store. I barely had time to go home, I didn’t have time… But They went through the door behind me. I didn’t have time to pick up the phone, I didn’t have time to do anything, they just kept silent press on the bed, silently crushed with the machine gunstripped ».

“From about 15 They left around 4am. They hardly spoke to each other anymore. You only have me offended a few times. Then they started saying, “Okay, that’s enough, we have to get our watch” and they left. That’s gross. Really disgusting. I do not want to live anymoreHe said.

“I am a midwife and the I gave first aid myself. I think I’ll take care of the rest from there», meaning the place where his children are now. But she is sure of one thing: “Ukraine will stay here. AND our people will take revengehe will take revenge on them», Elena is sure of that.

Speaking to the AFP news agency in the city of Zaporizhia, Elena is waiting for a bus reach their four children in central Ukraine. He sent her out of her hometown on February 24, the first day of the Russian invasion. Her husband was sent to the front, and Elena stayed at home try to arrange a transfer longer in a safer part of the country. But she didn’t get a car, and the situation on the ground quickly changed when Russian troops took over the city.