“There was no deliberate Russian policy of sexual violence against Ukrainian women. But we are investigating several cases that occurred in the capital region during the month of March.” This is what he says in an interview with “Corriere della Sera” the police commander for the Kiev regional district, General Andriy Nebytov. “We are looking into over twenty incidents of possible sexual violence. I deliberately use the conditional because in general women and families are extremely reluctant to talk about it with investigators,” she added.
“We also found several corpses – he continues – mostly of young women, found undressed, with evident stab wounds and their hands tied behind their backs. Our experts are carrying out autopsies to see if they had been violated before being The majority, in fact, seem to have been murdered after the rape, or repeated rapes, perhaps by several soldiers “. For investigations, “we have records of phone calls available. The women do not report out of shame, but talk about it with friends and relatives. In addition, we have the recordings of conversations between Russian soldiers captured by our intelligence”.
Among the confirmed cases that of “Marina, 34, from the village of Bogdanivka, near Brovary east of Kiev. Her husband who tried to defend her was killed immediately along with the family’s dogs, she was raped in front of her son. Three years old. Two Russians had threatened to kill the child if he resisted. We also know the name of one of the rapists: Mikhail Romanov, who apparently was shot by his superiors when they found out. But perhaps he was killed by our parents instead. commando “. The commander then explains that the men who tried to defend the women were killed: “husbands, brothers or parents were killed and in some cases they burned houses to hide the evidence”.
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