Sunday, 3 April 2022

Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges

Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers

Women across Ukraine are grappling with the threat of rape as a weapon of war as growing evidence of sexual violence emerges from areas retaken from retreating Russian forces.

The world was horrified on Sunday by a picture taken by the photographer Mikhail Palinchak on a highway 20km outside the capital, Kyiv, in which the bodies of one man and three women were piled under a blanket. The women were naked and their bodies had been partially burned, the photographer said.

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