Here we go. Right on schedule. With Russian soldiers you can set your clock by it.
Russian troops are using rape as an 'instrument of war' to terrorise Ukrainian families, country's prosecutor-general warns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nt-war-countrys-prosecutor-general-warns.html
How very Soviet of them. There are many cited instances. Holding the Russian soldiers accountable will be difficult despite attempts by Ukraine to do so.
Drunken Russian soldier accused of ‘repeatedly raping’ Ukrainian woman
Ukraine has informed Russia that the man is wanted ‘on suspicion of violating the laws and customs of war’
https://inews.co.uk/news/drunken-ru...-of-repeatedly-raping-ukrainian-woman-1535980
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general has accused Russian soldiers of killing a Ukrainian civilian and repeatedly raped a woman after breaking into their home near Kyiv.
Iryna Venediktova said officials are investigating the attack perpetrated by a drunken Russian soldier in Brovary, an eastern suburb of the capital.
She said: “This evil man broke into a private house and shot the owner. After that, the drunken occupier and his colleague repeatedly raped the wife of the killed civilian, threatening her with violence and weapons.
“He even threatened her young child, who was with the victim.”
She added that Ukraine has informed Russia that the man is wanted “on suspicion of violating the laws and customs of war” after a warrant for his arrest was issued.
Ms Venediktova continued: “We will find every villain and make him answer for all the severity of the law.”
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has previously decried the actions of Russian soldiers, accusing them of perpetrating atrocities against civilians.
He told the Italian Parliament on Tuesday: “There are Russian troops who are killing and raping people and kidnapping children, torturing people and looting. They take our property back to Russia on trucks. This is what Nazis did during the war when they occupied other countries.”
Lesia Vasylenko, an MP for the Ukrainian Holos Party, has also warned stories of sexual violence are being underreported.
She told the UK Parliament earlier this month: “Putin’s army is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are against the most vulnerable. He shifted his strategy to target specifically women and children.
“We have reports of women gang-raped, these women are usually the ones who are unable to get out. We are talking about senior citizens. Most of these women have either been executed after the crime of rape or they have taken their own lives.”
Ms Vasylenko said those who were killed were being “hanged”.
She said victims and families of victims did not “have the strength or the capacity to come forward”.
