The Russian higher command encourages the sexual violence of the occupiers against Ukrainians.

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine told The New York Times about this.

According to Hanna Sosonska, an investigator from the Prosecutor General's Office, investigators find evidence of sexual violence by Russians against the local population in all de-occupied territories.

"Everywhere: Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, Kharkiv region, Donetsk region, as well as in Kherson region," she said.

Sosonska emphasizes that the law enforcement officers recorded the following war crimes: rape, forcing to expose themselves, sexual torture - not only of women, but also of men and children.

Iryna Didenko, a representative of the prosecutor's office handling cases of sexual violence, said that there is a clear pattern of behavior when Russian troops occupy the territory: "Ground troops arrive, and on the second or third day rapes begin."

According to Didenko, it was the Russian command that ordered its wards to "go and relax."

So, in one case, the occupying commander said to his soldiers: "Okay, go" and waited outside the house.

One soldier was heard to say: "We'll just beat one, and we'll rape this one."

In another case, eight Russian soldiers raped a man who was stopped at a checkpoint.

"These are rare cases," Didenko said.

The prosecutor's office has already opened 154 cases of sexual violence.

The real number, she says, is "much, much higher."

Didenko said that in one of the previously occupied villages of the Kyiv region, psychologists found that every ninth woman had experienced sexual violence.

Hundreds of people suffered from sexual violence and torture in Russian prisons.

The victims of the occupiers were people aged from 80 to a 4-year-old girl who was forced to have oral sex with a soldier.

There are more than a dozen cases of gang rape, forcing family members to watch sexual violence against a relative, and sexual violence against detainees.

Earlier, the occupier, who escaped from the Russian Federation to Spain, spoke about the crimes of Russian soldiers near Bucha.

In particular, he confirmed the rape of a woman and her daughter in the village of Andriivka, Makariv community.

It was also reported that the Russian occupiers in Luhansk region gang-raped a 12-year-old girl.

A 75-year-old teacher from Kherson told how the occupier brutally raped her in her own living room.

Read also:

  • Rape during the war: the first trial of the Russian occupier began in Kyiv

  • Russian occupiers in Kherson region raped and killed a woman and tried to strangle her 3-year-old child

  • In the temporarily captured Berdyansk, the Russian occupier raped a 29-year-old woman

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