A Ukrainian woman has said she was repeatedly raped at gunpoint for hours by drunken Russian troops who shot dead her husband — and as her terrified 4-year-old son sobbed nearby.
A Ukrainian woman has said she was repeatedly raped at gunpoint for hours by drunken Russian troops who shot her husband dead — and as her terrified 4-year-old son sobbed nearby.that troops stormed her rural home in the suburbs of the capital, Kyiv, on March 9 — even though she had a white sheet on her gate “to show there is just a family here and no one wants any harm.”
After dark, she heard a single gunshot — and saw the body of her 35-year-old husband, Andrey, on the ground by their front gate, she said. The troop who gunned down her husband then told her, “You’d better shut up or I’ll get your child and show him his mother’s brains spread around the house,” she claimed.Prosecutor general of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova, who is tasked with proving that Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.Soldiers stand in front of a destroyed farm that was attacked by Russian forces on March 28, 2022.
A long trench dug by Ukrainian soldiers near the front line in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 28, 2022.“Eventually both of them fell asleep in the chairs. I crept into the boiler room and told my son we have to run away really fast or we will get shot,” Natalya told the UK Times. “He doesn’t understand much … In the playground here, he goes up to people and says that we had to leave our house because there was war and there were bandits in the house but that Papa stayed behind. He doesn’t know his father is dead,” she said.AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd“We can’t get to the village, because the village is still occupied,” she said.