Horror Of Wartime: Russian Forces Rape Women In Captured Ukrainian Cities, Reports Ukraine Foreign Minister
There’s nothing more sad than the lost lives of innocent residents that are crushed between a war of two nations. And as the world witnesses the gruelling battle between Russia and Ukraine, women have yet again become a victim. With rape being used as a weapon for war, the latest reports about the situation in Ukraine, throw light upon the rising number of rape cases. Talking about the horrors of the war, many Russian troops are raping women across the county and captured cities as revealed by Ukraine foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who shared in a video, “When bombs fall on your cities when soldiers rape women in the occupied cities, it’s difficult of course to speak about the efficiency of international law…….as a country that committed an act of aggression, will be held accountable for its deeds.”
Ukrajinski ministar diplomatije Kuleba, optužuje ruske vojnike za silovanja žena u okupiranim ukrajinskim gradovima #Ukraine #women #rape pic.twitter.com/NWfd3dB9BS
— TV N1 Sarajevo (@N1infoSA) March 4, 2022
Using rape as a tool to create a feeling of fear, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is turning cities into ghost lands, with rising cases of sexual attack over women in the newly captured Kherson, followed by murders. The statement by the Ukrainian minister and people of Ukraine surfaced when Russia’s dearest allies broke ties with the country on Friday, during a vote of the United Nations for alleged human rights violations in Ukraine.
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This dark nature of war also makes me think about the lives and rights of several women that get buried under bullets and warfare caused by the clash of male egos. The situation also stands contrary to the celebration of women and their power across the globe on Women’s Day. Illustrating the abusive issue of wartime, violence against women has been a continued affair, ever since World War I and II, when Moroccan troops battled with French forces with a license to rape and plunder in enemy territory, and even during the latest instances of Ethiopia war, where Tigrayan fighters gang-raped hundreds of women and girls as young as the age of 14. And it’s sad enough that years and years later, the vicious crime has no stopping.
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Followed by the destruction of architecture, the devasted mentalities of men at war is deeply disturbing. Sharing the plight of the city dwellers, Svetlana Zorina, who lives with her grandmother in the Black Sea port city opened up in an interview with CNN and said, “They already started to rape our women. There was information from people that I personally know that a 17-year-old girl — it happened to her and then they killed her.”
“They already started to rape our women. There was information from people that I personally know, that 17-year-old girl, it happened to her and then they killed her. So we are terrified and scared, but we are not going to give up.”
-shares Svetlana Zorina, stuck in Kherson pic.twitter.com/cVfwjFrVxV
— Nora Neus (@noraneus) March 4, 2022
Stop Putin. Ban Sberbank from SWIFT. pic.twitter.com/6ZCfhS99Ut
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 5, 2022
The main street in St Petersburg, Russia tonight.The crowd is chanting "No to War!" "Shame!" & "Ukraine is not our enemy!" #Ukriane #UkraineRussiaWar #Kyiv #Kherson #Kharkov #Kiev #Moscow #Russian #Russia pic.twitter.com/YfSdhVqxYy
— Current Updates (@social_baba007) March 4, 2022
Photos from a Kyiv train station: Goodbyes have been repeated across Ukraine in the week since Russia invaded.
Those leaving are overwhelmingly women and children as Ukrainian men have been ordered to stay and fight in the war. https://t.co/h9THZcDkI7 pic.twitter.com/X6xNYT5cJS
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 4, 2022
On March 4, the nuclear plant, which creates around 20 per cent of Ukraine’s electricity, was attacked, followed by which Russia declared a partial ceasefire on March 5, 2022.
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