Russian troops barbaric rape campaign in Ukraine includes 4-year-old girl, UN details in alarming report

Russian troops carried out nearly 900 horrifying acts of sexual violence against Ukrainian civilians and POWs during the deadly war, including raping kids as little as 4-years-old, a disturbing new United Nations report found.The “widespread” barbaric torture by strongman Vladimir Putin’s soldiers, prison staff and national security service officers included rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings of prisoners’ genitals, according to the findings.Sixteen children were violently sexually assaulted among the 892 victims detailed in the report, which was released Friday by the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.“I am deeply alarmed by the prevalence of these abhorrent acts … and fear that they are almost certainly continuing amid the unceasing violence we are witnessing every day in Ukraine,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in a statement.“Sexual violence is a grave feature of the full-scale armed attack against Ukraine.

It must stop immediately, irrespective of the perpetrators.”Men accounted for 725 of the victims between Feb.24, 2022 — shortly after Putin launched his invasion — and July 31 of this year.The 151 female victims, ranging in age from 4 to 82, faced electric shocks to breasts, forced nudity, beatings while nude, and were forced to watch sexual violence of fellow captives, the findings document. Forty six women, including 10 girls, said they were raped by Russian military, including a four-year-old girl and an 82-year-old woman, according to the report.Three of those women had children born of rape.Viktoria Martsyniuk, a mom from a rural village northwest of Kyiv, said she was raped by a Russian soldier roughly the same age as her sons, the 42-year-old told the Telegram. Martsyniuk’s neighbor was also gang raped by a group of Russians and then forced to witness the killing of her husband who was shot at point blank range, the outlet reported.Those soldiers never faced ju...