Forensic doctors carrying out postmortem examinations on bodies in mass graves north of Kyiv say they have found evidence some women were raped before being killed by Russian forces. “Rape cases are a very delicate and sensitive matter,” Tkalenko said. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a statement last week that hundreds of women had been raped by Russian soldiers. “Psychologists work with the rape victims and then with detectives,” Tkalenko said. Tkalenko says that when prosecutors hear about rape cases they approach victims individually and try to see if they will file a statement.

Source: The Guardian April 25, 2022 22:11 UTC