London, 24 November (IANS) | Russian soldiers, including commanders, ordered Ukrainian women to hang white clothes outside their homes so fellow soldiers would know who to rape, investigators have claimed.
Wayne Jordache, a British criminal lawyer assisting in Kyiv’s war crimes probe, said during the war the commander ‘encouraged and ordered’ soldiers to rape women in Russian-occupied cities in Ukraine, the Daily Mail reported. Will give.
The report said a Ukrainian woman from the village of Berestyanka near Kyiv told how a Russian soldier ordered her to hang a white cloth outside her house.
In some areas around Kyiv, there is evidence that sexual violence perpetrated by Russian soldiers involves a level of organization that “speaks of planning on a more systematic level”, Jordash said.
The ‘systematic’ nature of sexual violence by Russian soldiers provides yet more evidence that Vladimir Putin’s commanders and soldiers have used rape as a weapon of war in the nine months since the invasion began, the Daily Mail reports .
Systematic gang rape campaigns in war use forced insemination as a tool to ethnically cleanse a nation and psychologically traumatize generations of people.
Academics say children born as a result of wartime rape are often stigmatized because they are a “living reminder of the conflict”.
Horrific sexual violence against women has occurred across Ukraine and evidence has now emerged showing Russian commanders knew about or even ordered a systematic rape campaign.
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