Nine women and girls held hostage in Bucha basement are PREGNANT after being raped by evil Russian troops
NINE women and girls are pregnant after being held by Russian forces in a basement in Bucha and raped, it has been claimed.
Those who are pregnant were part of group of around 25 girls and women aged 14 to 24 who were held captive, suffering horrific acts and repeatedly raped.
The shocking revelations were made by Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova as she documented several cases of appalling acts carried out by Russian troops on Ukrainian civilians.
She said dozens of women and girls had been in traumatic situations where Russians would sexually assault women and kill their husbands.
Speaking about the horrendous ordeal suffered by the women in Bucha, Denisova said: "About 25 girls and women aged 14 to 24 were systematically raped during the occupation in the basement of one house in Bucha.
“Nine of them are pregnant.
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"Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.
"A 25-year-old woman called to tell us her 16-year-old sister was raped in the street in front of her.
“She said they were screaming 'This will happen to every Nazi prostitute' as they raped her sister."
The sickening acts are part of numerous reports of Russian war crimes and assaults against women in Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion of the country.
Asked if Denisova could assess the scale of sexual crimes committed by Russian troops during the occupation, she replied: "It is impossible at the moment because not everyone is willing to tell us what happened to them. The majority of them currently call for psychological support, so we cannot record those as crimes unless they give us their testimony.”
She said Ukraine wants a special tribunal to be set up by the United Nations to try Russian President Vladimir Putin personally for allegations of war crimes including rape.
One 50-year-old woman, only referred to as Anna, told the of her ordeal which happened on March 7.
RAPED AT GUNPOINT
"At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. Then he started raping me," she said.
On the evening she was attacked, she said she had been spotted by two Russians as she left the basement where her family had been sheltering.
The Russians inspected the family and asked them their ages before interrogating her mother alone.
After releasing the mum, one of the men then took Dasha.
She said: “His comrade told him not to touch me. He was sober. But the one who took me was drunk and he had a submachine gun. The sober one didn't have a submachine gun.”
Dasha added: “I told him I was 16 and pregnant. I told him I'm in my sixth month. But he said that at this stage nothing happens to the child.”
He proceeded to grope her and when she resisted he choked her and threatened to shoot her.
The rape lasted half an hour, after which he told her to get dressed and follow him to the house he had been occupying in the village.
The soldier tried to ply her with alcohol and rape her again but his comrades came in at the point he was trying to undress her again.
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Human rights organisation Amnesty International recently released a batch of documents outlining a series of war crimes and atrocities allegedly carried out by Russian troops.
Agnès Callamard of Amnesty International said: "In recent weeks, we have gathered evidence that Russian forces have committed extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings, which must be investigated as likely war crimes."
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