Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9877600
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The UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has concluded that Russian forces have committed a variety of war crimes in Ukraine, including sexual and gender-based violence against individuals as young as four and as old as 82.
“We’ve not only pursued searches for evidence directly at known scenes of crimes, but we’ve also been monitoring open sources of information, such as social media channels,” said Andrii Kovalenko, the lead prosecutor for the southern Kherson region, which was controlled by Russian forces for almost nine months until late 2022.
Tracking down people to provide testimony is difficult, as is identifying exactly where the crimes occurred, Kovalenko said.
“Victims were brought there with their faces covered,” he said.
Sexual violence is so prevalent in the Russian armed forces even within their own troops that it shouldn’t surprise anybody that they treat Ukrainians this way.
Sexual violence (and other physical and emotional abusive behaviour) between their own officers and their subordinates is such a widespread phenomenon that it has its own word - Dedovshchina.
The Russian armed forces are absolutely evil. I have zero doubt of these reports.
If you think their regular armed forces are bad, check out the shit that Wagner got into. Wagner has a ton of ties to the prison system and organized crime - particularly, they model their power dynamic after shit that you typically see in Russian prisons, with everything that that entails.