“Either you sleep with me now, or I’ll bring 20 more men,” were the words of a drunken Russian soldier before allegedly raping a pregnant 16-year-old girl in the Russian-controlled village of Kherson.
At the time of the alleged rape, the teen was once six months pregnant, CNN reported. She said the drunken soldiers strangled her to death and threatened to kill her if she protested.
The survivor and his family were sheltering in the basement of their residence to escape the bombardment. In the evening when they take the teenagers out for a meal, they are seen with the help of a drunken soldier.
The survivor said, “He asked how old the teenagers were. There were two females aged 12 and 14 and I was sixteen once he referred to my mother at first but quickly dropped her and then became known for me. When I went, he started shouting at me and asked me to undress. When I said no, he said he would tell 20 other people if I didn’t sleep with him now.
She said he tried to strangle her and threatened to kill her if she protested the rape. Another Russian soldier who was not drunk once pleaded with the attacker to stop, but in vain.
“I’m aware he had blue eyes, but it was dark and I couldn’t make out much of it,” said the survivor.
She said that she had heard various Russians call him blue and said that he had previously been a criminal and that there had been talk that he roamed the village looking for a “girl of easy virtue”.
She lamented, “If only we had not gathered to eat, he would not have considered us, and he would not have touched me now.”
But the rape did not stop her grief. The next day, she was taken to every other soldier who started shouting at her and threatened to rape her.
“Once I got scared so I started crying. But he instructed me to check whether I was telling the truth or lying.
While the allegation should not be independently verified by the news portal, Ukrainian prosecutors told CNN that they had investigated the allegation and examined the attack, calling it a conflict crime.
In a statement, prosecutors said, “Thanks to the victim’s testimony and the results of various investigative actions, it would have been intercepted in early March 2022, not all through the occupation of a village. The military advantage of Ukrainian troops, (there) against civilians.” There were conflict crimes, such as the rape of a minor resident of the village.
