“I shouted, ‘Where is my husband?’ Then I looked outside and saw him on the ground next to the gate. This younger man pulled the gun to my head and said, ‘I shot your husband because he is a Nazi,’” the woman said. , who used the nickname Natalya, told the Times of London in an article published on Monday. The woman said she was raped by the man who killed her husband and another soldier. “He told me to take off my clothes. Then they both raped me one after the other. They did not care that my son was in the boiler room and he was crying. They told me to go and close him and come back,” he said. the British newspaper. Ukraine’s attorney general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post last week that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife, according to the New York Times. The incident allegedly took place on March 9. The soldier is currently being sought for arrest “on suspicion of violating the laws and customs of war,” the report added. This is the first investigation into allegations of rape by Russian soldiers since Moscow invaded Ukraine more than a month ago. Asked at a news conference about the investigation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said: “We do not trust any information about a woman being raped. This is a lie.” “We do not trust the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Russian troops do not hit or shoot civilians. Russian troops are helping civilians,” Peshkov said. Ukrainian Parliament Minister Maria Mezentseva told Sky News on Monday that cases such as Natalia’s should be recorded, as “justice must prevail.” Mezedseva added that there are many more victims in similar circumstances that have not yet been made public by the attorney general. This is not the first time Ukraine has accused Russian soldiers of atrocities. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has previously said Russian soldiers raped Ukrainian cities, using the allegations to criticize the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Kuleba said at an event in London earlier this month: “When bombs fall on your cities, when soldiers rape women in the occupied cities – and we have many cases, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in Ukrainian cities – it is difficult, of course, “to talk about the effectiveness of international law,” he told Reuters.
