Rape is part of the Russian “military strategy” and “deliberate tactics for the dehumanization of victims” in Ukraine. This was stated by the UN special representative for sexual violence in the context of conflicts of Pramil Patten AFP.
She claims that this really has all the signs of “strategy”. “When women are kept for several days and raped, when they begin to rape little boys and men, when you see numerous damage injuries, when you hear women about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, this is clearly a military strategy. And when the victims talk about the fact that they talk about that What was said during rape, it becomes clear that this is tactics aimed at dehumanizing the victims, ”said Praten.
According to the special representative, the facts of rape in the war in Ukraine were again confirmed in the September report of the UN. There is confirmed information that the victims of the Russian military were people aged 4 to 82 years.