A Ukrainian woman who said she had been repeatedly attacked by Russian soldiers after her husband was killed was investigating allegations by Ukrainian officials, the first such rape investigation by Russian soldiers since the beginning of the invasion. “I heard a gunshot, the sound of the gate opening and then the sound of footsteps inside the house,” an anonymous woman named Natalya told the Times. On March 9, two Russian soldiers who had earlier killed the family dog ​​while walking next to her house near Shevchenkove, outside Kyiv, returned to kill her husband, she said. “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’s a Nazi.” Natalya told the Times that she told her 4-year-old son to hide in the boiler room where they had taken refuge. The soldiers raped her repeatedly as her son cried in the next room. “He said, ‘You better shut up or I’ll take your child and show him his mother’s mind all over the house,’” he told the Times. “He told me to take off my clothes. Then they both raped me one by one. 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. They kept him all the time. gun from my head and they made fun of me, saying “how do you think it sucks? Kill her or keep her alive? “ Her story is one of the many reports of sexual violence and rape during the invasion of Ukraine and the first to be investigated by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Earlier this month, Ukrainian MP Lesya Vasilenko spoke to British officials about growing reports of rape. “We have reports of women being gang-raped. These women are usually the ones who can not go out. We are talking about the elderly,” the Guardian reported, Vasilenko said. “Most of these women have either been executed after the crime of rape or committed suicide.” Natalia and her son fled, leaving the house built by their husband and his body behind. She has not yet told her son that his father has died. “We can not bury him, we can not reach the village, because the village is still occupied,” he said. Even if the Brovary area is liberated, he does not know if he will return. “Memories are hard,” he told the Times. “I do not know how I will live with all this, but I still understand that my husband built this house for us. I could never force myself to sell it.”