When she returned home, she found her husband had been shot in the abdomen and he died two days later from his injuries. 'While he was raping me, four more soldiers entered. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. She told the BBC: 'At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. Meanwhile a 50-year-old woman who lives 45 miles of Kyiv said a Chechen soldier barged into the home she shared with her husband on March 7. The camerawoman could be heard sobbing as she described the sceneĭenisova said: 'Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.' The scale of the brutality has led a Ukrainian rights group to inform the UN that rape is being used as a weapon of war by the Kremlin.īloodstained sheets were filmed at Tetiana's supposed murder scene, while footage also shows rooms in the house where contents had been smashed and thrown about. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda responded saying, 'It's simply impossible to imagine a greater horror.' 'Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including those of young girls and very young children. Bodies continue to be found in drains and cellars.
Speaking to Lithuanian lawmakers, Zelensky said: 'In areas freed from the occupiers, the recording and investigation of war crimes committed by Russia continues. 'A 25-year-old woman called us to say her 16-year-old sister was raped in the street in front of her.' Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine's human rights commissioner, told the BBC: 'Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children. One Russian soldier has even been arrested after allegedly recording himself abusing a Ukrainian baby.Īnd nine women in Bucha are pregnant after being raped by Russians. Yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops of carrying out 'hundreds of rapes' including sexual assaults of small children. They were only able to escape once it had been recaptured and liberated by Ukrainian forces.ĭasha is not the only victim from the village of Krasnivka, with a 78-year-old grandmother also raped. The teenager and her family then tried to flee the village but they were told they couldn't because they 'know too much'.Ī road service worker stands in front of destroyed houses in the village of Zalissya, northeast of Kyiv Two soldiers then took the young girl back home and said they would take care of the matter and even shoot the rapist.īut three days later, the attacker was taken to Dasha and denied everything in front of his fellow invaders. He told the troops Dasha was his girlfriend who had come to visit her on her own and she did not object, fearing the consequences of telling the truth. The soldier tried to ply her with alcohol and rape her again but his comrades came in at the point he was trying to undress her again.
The rape lasted half an hour, after which he told her to get dressed and follow him to the house he had been occupying in the village. He then proceeded to repeatedly grope her but when she resisted, he choked her and threatened to shoot her again. But he said that at this stage nothing happens to the child, that many do.' She said: 'I told him I was 16 and pregnant. Some also grandmothers.'įirefighters operate at a burning building, following a missile attack near the Kharkiv International Airport yesterday Then they started looking for young women.
They found vodka among people in the village and drank. She told Bild: 'At first they were completely normal. Then they started drinking. Nine of the women are now pregnant.ĭasha said her village of Krasniva was occupied by Kremlin forces on March 13 when she emerged from the basement with her family to get food. In Bucha, where Russia is accused of carrying out some of the worst of its atrocities, 25 girls and woman aged 14 to 25 were 'systematically' raped while being held captive in a basement.
Her story is just the latest in a string of barbaric allegations of rape against women and children in Ukraine, with Putin's thugs accused of using rape as a weapon of war. A pregnant 16-year-old girl has recounted her horrific rape at gunpoint by a Russian soldier who ordered her to take her clothes off or he would shoot her dead.ĭasha, from the now liberated village of Krasniva in Kherson Oblast, said she had been sheltering with her family in a basement when she was singled out by a drunk soldier who savagely attacked her with her mother and siblings next door.