When she returned home, she found her husband had been shot in the abdomen and he died two days later from his injuries.
'While he was raping me, four more soldiers entered. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. She told the BBC: 'At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. Meanwhile a 50-year-old woman who lives 45 miles of Kyiv said a Chechen soldier barged into the home she shared with her husband on March 7.
The camerawoman could be heard sobbing as she described the sceneĮlsewhere in Bucha, 25 girls and woman aged 14 to 25 were 'systematically' raped while being held captive in a basement, it has been claimed.ĭenisova said: '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.' The soldier is said to have shared other videos of his abuse of children to other friends and colleagues.īloodstained sheets were filmed at Tetiana's supposed murder scene, while footage also shows rooms in the house where contents had been smashed and thrown about. Meanwhile, one of Putin's soldiers has been arrested after footage emerged of him allegedly raping a baby in Ukraine.Īlexei Bychkov, 24, sent the vile footage to a Russian comrade before he was detained on Saturday, it was reported. On April 8, a 16-year-old girl and 78-year-old woman were among those raped, official Oleksandr Vilkul claimed. She said an estimated 120,000 Ukrainian children were rounded up and kidnapped, with some raped and others smuggled over to Russia. Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova said the boy was attacked in Bucha where scores of dead civilians showing signs of torture were found weeks after it was recaptured.ĭenisova also claimed that five soldiers in Putin's army raped a 14-year-old girl who has become pregnant. We know and see - and we want you to hear our voices - that violence and rape is used now as a weapon of war by Russian invaders in Ukraine.'Īn 11-year-old boy is among the alleged victims after he was reportedly raped by Russian troops in front of his mother who was tied to a chair and forced to watch. She told the UN: 'This is just the tip of the iceberg. Kateryna Cherepakha, president of La Strada-Ukraine, said her organisation's emergency hotlines had received calls accusing Russian soldiers of nine cases of rape involving 12 women and girls. The scale of the brutality has led a Ukrainian rights group to inform the UN that rape is being used as a weapon of war by the Kremlin.Īlexei Bychkov (pictured), 24, has allegedly been arrested after footage emerged of him abusing a baby Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda responded saying, 'It's simply impossible to imagine a greater horror.' 'Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including those of young girls and very young children. Bodies continue to be found in drains and cellars. Speaking to Lithuanian lawmakers today, Zelensky said: 'In areas freed from the occupiers, the recording and investigation of war crimes committed by Russia continues. One Russian soldier has even been arrested after allegedly recording himself abusing a Ukrainian baby.
Putin's band of thugs have been linked to a string of horrific atrocities across Ukraine, including the brutal rape and murder of women and children, often in front of their own family members.