The endless horror of War, which remains in the eyes of the survivors, but heartbroken forever. Another tale of rape coming in unfiltered from across Ukraine. The latest story is told by a seventeen-year-old Ukrainian. She witnessed the rape of her mother and younger sister by Russian soldiers, saw with her own eyes how they were beaten, and then stayed next to the corpses of her family for 4 days. It is the shock suffered by a seventeen-year-old Ukrainian who said she was spared because she was “ugly”.
The young woman managed to tell her dramatic story to psychologists on a special telephone line set up in the country by the Commissioner for Confidential Psychological Assistance, and then, together with her grandmother, gave permission to publish it. Her statement was then published on her Telegram profile by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, Lyudmila Denisova.
What happened?
It all happened in Irpin, a town northwest of Kyiv that has already been the scene of other atrocities committed by the Russians, such as when tanks drove over the bodies of the people killed. The girl said she saw “three racist inmates rape her mother and 15-year-old younger sister in front of her.” They were particularly badly beaten and raped. Both are dead,” the report, reported by Denisova, said. “In a state of mental shock, the young woman stayed in the house with the bodies for 4 days. After the liberation of the city – the story continues – she was able to reach her grandmother. She said while her relatives were being killed she was held but not touched “because I’m ugly. They said: “Let them live and pass them on to others.”
“Now our psychologists are working with the girl,” explains Denisova, who denounces how new evidence “of the terrible sex crimes committed by racists” is appearing every day in the areas liberated from the Russians. Since April 1, more than 400 people have called the special number set up with the support of UNICEF, Denisova reports, specifying that most of the requests for help are related to sex crimes committed by Russian soldiers. The victims of rape are “mainly women, but there are also many children and men,” said Oleksandra Kvitko, a psychologist and psychotherapist working for the phone line, in an interview. «The first victims of sexual violence turned to me some time after the liberation of the Kyiv region – he adds -. Three or four days have passed and the calls have started and are not ending ».
Last updated: Friday 22 April 2022 20:17
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