did russian soldiers rape ukrainian women?

“Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded including underage girls, very young children and even a baby”reports the Ukrainian president who says he is “afraid”. The rapes allegedly took place in areas busy by the Russian army like kyiv, Kharkiv or even Kherson. A Ukrainian fled the city of Kherson. She says she was raped for hours by two Russian soldiers.

According to Nicolas Gosset, researcher at the Royal Higher Institute for Defense in Brussels, these rapes “are more of a desire to humiliate, to mark communities”. A phone call intercepted by the Ukrainian army and authenticated by the American media “RadioLiberty”shows the trivialization of this act. We hear a soldier discussing with his wife the rapes they could commit in the field. She says she allows him to rape women on the condition that she doesn’t tell him. Ukrainian justice, the International Criminal Court and several European countries have launched investigations into these rapes in search of evidence for future legal proceedings.