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Telegraph, 13 Apr 2022
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Intercepted phone call by the Security Service of Ukraine shows a conversation between a Russian woman and her partner, who is a solider in the Russian army. Russian woman gives the soldier permission to rape Ukrainian women and continues to laugh about it.

Twenty-five women and girls - some as young as 14 - were “systematically raped” by Russian troops during the occupation of the town of Bucha with nine now pregnant, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner said on Tuesday.

Mounting reports about victims of rape in Ukraine are emerging as the United Nations warned of widespread sexual violence during the Russian invasion.

“Nine of them are pregnant,” Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, told the BBC. “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.

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