The government of Ukraine accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assault a girl four years old and of gang raping his mother in front of his wait, while they pointed a gun at him.
The accusation comes as part of widespread allegations of abuses during Russia’s more than a year-long invasion of Ukraine, according to an article published by Reuters.
According to documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office Reuters had access, the facts are within an avalanche of sex crimes that the Russian soldiers of a Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade committed in four houses in the region of brovarynearly kyivin March of last year.
According to investigations, after the failed attempt to Moscow to capture kyivthe soldiers entered brovary a few days later, looting and using sexual violence as a deliberate tactic to terrorize the population, Ukrainian prosecutors said.
“They chose the women, they coordinated their actions and their roles beforehand,” the prosecutors said, in the 2022 documents that were based on interviews with witnesses and survivors, according to what was published. Reuters.
Most of the crimes occurred after March 13, when soldiers “in a state of alcoholic intoxication broke into the courtyard of the house where a young family lived,” prosecutors said.
The father was beaten with a metal pot and then forced to kneel while his wife was gang-raped. One of the soldiers told the four-year-old that she will “make her a woman” before she was abused, according to the documents.
The family survived, but prosecutors said they are investigating additional crimes in the area, including murders during that same period.
The Russian soldiers who coordinated the crime were snipers aged 32 and 28. The eldest died, while the youngest, identified as Yevgeniy Chernoknizhnyis back in Russia according to the files.
The two snipers are among six other suspects charged in the Brovary attacks, marking one of the most extensive investigations into sexual abuse since the invasion began.
But the crimes by the snipers did not end there, after the attack on the girl and her parents, the two Russian soldiers entered the house next door, where an elderly couple lived, whom they beat and also, they raped a 41-year-old pregnant woman and a 17-year-old girl.
In another place where several families lived, soldiers forced everyone into the kitchen and gang-raped a 15-year-old girl and her mother, prosecutors said, according to what was published by Reuters.
All the victims survived and were receiving medical and psychological assistance.
These cases add to the growing reports of systematic sexual abuse by Russian soldiers.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said his office is investigating more than 71,000 reports of war crimes received since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops across the border.
Unfortunately, the probability of being able to find and punish the Russian criminals who perpetrated these crimes is low and that, furthermore, the trials would be mainly in the absence of those indicated.
But there are international efforts to prosecute war crimes, including by the Cinternational criminal court, This means that if Moscow refuses to admit the defendants, anyone convicted in absentia may be placed on international watch lists, making it difficult for them to travel.
So far, Ukrainian prosecutors have convicted 26 Russians of war crimes, some prisoners of war, some in absentia, including one for rape.
(With information from Reuters)
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