EVIL As they rampage through Ukrainian cities, Russian troops are allegedly raping women and slaughtering families hiding in basements.
Anastasia Taran, 30, has accused Putin’s brutal soldiers of raping women in the Russian-occupied city of Irpin, which has been under attack for nearly a month by Russia’s invading forces.
Previously, Ukraine’s foreign minister confirmed reports of Putin’s soldiers sexually assaulting Ukrainian women.
Anastasia claims Russian troops have stormed basements and shot terrified families as fighting in Irpin rages on.
“Irpin is hell,” said the former waitress, who has lived in the Kyiv suburb for four years. There are plenty of Russian soldiers out there who simply shoot people who enter private homes or, at best, kick people out.
“They rape women, and the dead are simply dumped.” They open the basement doors and shoot the people who are hiding there.”
According to Euromaidan Press, Anastasia and her husband were without internet, electricity, heating, or water for a week in the Russian-controlled city.
Before the war, Irpin had a population of 110,000 people, but the vast majority of them have fled.
Svetlana Zorina, 27, of Kherson, another Russian-occupied city, accused the invading Russian forces of sexually assaulting women.
People in the Black Sea port city, according to Svetlana, can only “sit at home and take care of ourselves because we are scared.”
She told CNN earlier this month, “They have already begun to rape our women.”
“I heard from people I know that a 17-year-old girl had this happen to her, and then they killed her.”
“We are terrified and scared,” she added, “but we will not give up.”
Svetlana declared that leaving the house had become too “dangerous.”
“They started raping our women, so it’s now very dangerous to go outside, especially when it’s dark,” she told talkRadio.
“Unfortunately, I’ve heard about a few cases from people I know.”
It comes after a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians accused Russian troops of raping and killing elderly Ukrainian women.
Lesia Vasylenko, an MP for Ukraine’s opposition Holos party, claimed that many female “senior citizens” committed suicide after being sexually abused in order to escape the violence.
“When Putin was unable to take Ukraine and Kyiv in the three days that he anticipated, he shifted his strategy to specifically target women and children,” Ms Vasylenko said.
“We are now receiving reports of women being raped all over Ukraine, particularly in the cities that have been hit the hardest.”
“These are usually the women who are unable to leave. We’re talking about the elderly.
“We have reports that the majority of these women were either executed for the crime of rape or committed suicide.”
WAR CRIMES
Women from vulnerable groups are said to have been targeted in Kyiv, Bucha, and Irpin.
“The ladies who were raped and suffered sexual violence, some of them were also hanged,” Maria Mezentseva, Ukrainian MP for the Servant of the People Party, added.
“These are the facts we’re gathering to present to the ECHR as evidence of war crimes.”
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, previously claimed that there have been reports of Putin’s soldiers sexually assaulting Ukrainian women.
“We have numerous cases of Russian soldiers raping women in Ukrainian cities,” he said at a Chatham House briefing.
Kuleba backed a call for the establishment of a special tribunal to punish Moscow’s aggression, as the country’s hostility goes beyond bombing.
According to Kuleba, international law “is the only tool of civilisation available to us to ensure that, in the end, all those who made this war possible will be brought to justice.”
Sexual violence against Ukrainian women is expected to rise as a result of the conflict, according to human rights organisations.
Steve Crawshaw, the director of Freedom from Torture, told The Independent: “We witnessed torture when Moscow attempted to impose itself with dramatic force in Chechnya.
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