"Russian Military Exposed for Atrocities, Including Rape of 'Wives of Ukrainian Soldiers'"

Repeated Allegations of Sexual Assault by Russian Troops

On the 4th, people gathered outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia, to mourn the civilians who died in Ukraine. / Photo by AFP Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Na Ye-eun] A Ukrainian woman with four children in Kherson, southern Ukraine, has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by Russian soldiers for more than 12 hours.

According to the British Daily Mail and others on the 8th (local time), Elena (a pseudonym), a mother of four living in Kherson, southern Ukraine, encountered two Russian soldiers around 3 p.m. on the 3rd while visiting a store.

The soldiers were talking with the store customers, and one local pointed at Elena and said, "She is a Banderovka." Banderovka refers to Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian wartime nationalist leader who collaborated with the Nazis to fight against Russia. The media reported, "Russian authorities often use this term to disparage Ukrainian officials with nationalist views."

Elena said the man who pointed at her shouted, "'These people are the reason the war started,' and 'She is the wife of a Ukrainian soldier.'"

Feeling threatened, Elena quickly left the store and headed home, but two Russian soldiers followed her into the house.

Elena said, "The soldiers pushed me onto the bed without saying a word. Then they threatened me with guns and stripped me. They did not say much, sometimes calling me 'Banderovka' or telling each other, 'Now it's your turn.' They left around 4 a.m. when their shift was over."

She added, "This situation is very disgusting, and I no longer want to live. I will never forgive the person who reported me," expressing her anger.

A photo posted on April 4th on Twitter by Lesia Vasylenko, a member of the Ukrainian Holos Party. A Nazi symbol is tattooed on a woman's body. / Photo by Twitter

Meanwhile, this is not the first time a Ukrainian woman has accused Russian soldiers of sexual assault.

On the 5th, according to the New York Post and the British Independent, Lesia Vasylenko, a member of the Ukrainian Holos Party in the National Assembly, shared on her Twitter a photo of a deceased Ukrainian civilian woman who was "raped and tortured," showing a Nazi symbol tattooed on her body.

The released photo shows burn marks of the swastika, a Nazi symbol, on the woman's abdomen. There are also bruises around her body, indicating she was assaulted.

Additionally, on the 28th of last month, reports emerged that the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office had launched an investigation into "Russian military sexual assault cases."

The British daily The Times reported that Natalia (33, a pseudonym), living in a small village in Shevchenkove near Kyiv, was brutally raped by Russian soldiers on March 9, and her husband was killed by them.

In an interview with The Times, Natalia said, "They called my husband a 'Nazi' and shot him dead," and "The Russian soldiers threatened me, saying if I did not stay quiet, they would bring my son and show me my mother's brain scattered around the house," before assaulting her.

A representative of 'Lastrada Ukraine,' a Ukrainian organization supporting victims of sexual and domestic violence, said, "Thousands of women and young girls may have been raped," adding, "The first report we received was on the 3rd of last month, stating that 'three Russian soldiers simultaneously raped a mother and her 17-year-old daughter.'"

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