Russia Is Using Rape As A Weapon Of War Against Ukraine

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-rape-weapon-of-war-ukraine_n_62617db5e4b0e900dcd34011


Warning: This article describes graphic sexual violence.

Since the war in Ukraine began, reports of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian fighters slowly trickled out of occupied areas. Then, as Russian forces retreated from these regions at the beginning of the month, likely to refocus ground offensive elsewhere, official reports of sexual assault and rape have flooded in. The widespread accounts paint a horrifying picture of how Russian fighters are weaponizing sexual violence and adding to the terror of wartime.

The testimonies coming from Ukrainians include gang rapes, assaults taking place at gunpoint, rapes committed in front of victims’ children, as well as torture and mutilation. There have been several reports of Ukrainian women who were raped and then murdered by Russian forces.

One Ukrainian woman described on camera how multiple Russian fighters raped her after they rolled into her village with tanks. Another reported that two Russian soldiers murdered her husband on their front lawn and then repeatedly raped her in her basement with her 4-year-old son sobbing in a room down the hall. A group of 15 Ukrainian soldiers, all women, had their heads shaved and were forced to undress and squat for hours while in Russian detention. A dead Ukrainian woman was found in a cellar, shot in the head and naked except for a fur coat, with a used condom and condom wrappers around her.

In one of the most abhorrent testimonies, 25 girls and women, ranging from 14 to 24 years old, were locked in a basement and gang-raped repeatedly in Bucha, a city near the capital of Kyiv. Nine of the victims are now pregnant. “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,” said Ukraine’s ombudsman for human rights Lyudmyla Denisova.

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[Walleye]

1. I'm sorry but I'm starting to hate the Russian people

[Wingus Dingus]

2. But obviously this pales in comparison to the utter injustice

of Russian tennis players not being allowed to play at Wimbledon. Or so I read here.

[MLAA]

3. I just can't even imagine the horrors the women have suffered.

First, may the victims receive physical and emotional medical care. Second, may none of the war criminal rapists return home to Russia.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Fucking medievalists.

[Tucker08087]

5. THIS is why...There Are Worse Things... And they KNOW IT...'

I walked through the trees
And the honeysuckle bees
And believed that I was really living
We’d been trained to accept
What others might reject
And we took a vow of forgiving

The night wind cooled me
The starry skies fooled me
I was there just to do my calling
When the doorbell rang
That familiar sound
Down narrow steps I walked without falling

But I fell
Dear God,
to the depths of hell
That shiny silver blade
With precise and viscous cuts
Left bloody marks
And they will never fade
But they certainly weren’t
The only scars that were made

There are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
My God, can’t you see this dread
Can’t you read between the lines that you read
There are worse things
There are worse things
For the love of God
There aren’t worse things
Than being dead

And I asked every night
Before I went to bed
Why?
Why didn’t he leave me dead?
Why’d he leave me
To walk in misery
instead?

Now years have gone by
Can’t remember how to cry
Except for others who’ve felt this pain
We didn’t have a choice
They still won’t hear our voice
Roll their eyes as they say it’s a shame

The night wind heals me
The starry skies feel me
They know that I’m still trying
And every single footstep
Reminds me of a misstep
A life I try to live without lying

But I lie
Dear God,
Cause I wished that you would die
That sharp silver blade
Yeah it cuts both ways
And maybe I’d remember how to cry
Your own ending might teach me how to try

There are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
My God, can’t you see the disgrace
There are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
Than staring into the devil’s face

Can’t you see it in my eyes that I’m gone
A role in a play that’s always on
There are worse things
There are worse things
For the love of God
There are worse things
Than faking being strong
And living far too long
And he left me
Bleeding freely
And to this day
I ask why instead
Did he let me live
And my answer
My only answer
was that he, too
Even he knew
There are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
Than being dead

Because so many times
I’ve wished that his crime
Would have left me dead
My veins were dripping
My life was slipping…. away
But he let me stay
Wish he’d left me dead
Instead

Cause there are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
Please, God, let them hear what I’ve said
There are worse things
There are worse things
There are worse things
Than being dead

[onecaliberal]

6. Sub human fucks. I hope karma is swift and terrible.

[smirkymonkey]

12. +1000

I can't even say what I am thinking, but it is along the same lines.

[onecaliberal]

13. I'm sure I have crossed my toes over the line here but

I can’t say what I think either. I do know this. How can any country in the world claim moral authority after this.

[Sherman A1]

15. +1000

Even if Karma is slow, it will arrive and pay them back multiple times over.

[pamdb]

7. russian soldiers

This is what russian soldiers do. They did it in WWII and apparently haven't changed. They raped their way to Berlin and continued once they took what became East Berlin. I wouldnt
call them animals, that would be an insult to animals.

[Hekate]

8. Ask us old ladies who knew now-gone old ladies from Eastern Europe how much they feared...

…being in the path of the Russian Army.

This is not new.

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

[Cha]

9. GD Vicious brainDEAD Zombie

💙💛

[sheshe2]

10. No words, just tears.

[TomSlick]

11. And still, NATO will gauge every action in Ukraine lest Putin see it as an escalation.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Genius strategy by Putin acc to Trump

And support for Russia by Tucker C.

[vercetti2021]

16. Start executing captured russian soldiers

Fuck Russians and Russia.