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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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suchmoon
on 20/05/2022, 17:00:20 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (2)
Here are some examples of Russophobia in Ukraine.

"examples of" is not equal to a widespread adoption of nazi ideology. Nazi/fascist elements can be found in any society that has a certain degree of freedom of speech. Only a few countries - Russia among them, Ukraine not - have adopted fascism as a policy. I'm not going to bring the garbage from Russian state media or pro-Putin telegram channels here, I'm quite sure you know what I'm talking about but you choose to ignore it like the fires and flooding in Mariupol and pretty much every fact that doesn't support Putin's propaganda.

About the rapes. There were many reports in Ukrainian news resources about the rapes of Ukrainian children by Russian soldiers (examples: 1, 2, 3).

However, on May 11, 2022, the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights, Daria Gerasimchuk, stated other information:
01:08:44 BELSAT NEWS host: "There were reports in the press that children were victims of violence by the Russian occupiers. Do you have any data that could confirm this?"
01:08:56 Daria Gerasimchuk: "Today, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine doesn't have a single confirmed fact of violence ... yet. Most likely, because people are not ready to report it. Therefore, the data to which everyone is now appealing, then, there were such cases, most likely.

That is, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has no facts of such violence, but according to rumors have there been such cases? This is nonsense, because these are empty accusations of terrible crimes, not based on facts. Doesn't it seem strange to you that many people are ready to talk to journalists about inhuman cases of violence against themselves, but at the same time refuse to report to law enforcement agencies so that criminal cases can be opened? I may be wrong, but even if the victim refuses to testify, if there is evidence, the police still open a criminal case.

Nonsense sounds like a correct description of what you're doing here. Again, going out of your way to find some minor, possibly out-of-context, tangential detail and ignoring actual facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/evidence-ukraine-women-raped-before-being-killed-say-doctors-russia-war

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Following the withdrawal of Russian troops from towns and suburbs around the capital, dozens of women have told police, the media and human rights organisations about atrocities they say they suffered suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers. Investigators have heard testimony of gang-rapes, assaults taking place at gunpoint and rapes committed in front of children.

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Lyudmila Denisova, has officially documented the cases of 25 women who were kept in a basement and systematically raped in Bucha, a town north of Kyiv now synonymous with Russian war crimes. Authorities have warned those cases could be the tip of the iceberg and accused Russian troops of using rape as an instrument of war.

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Tkalenko said women were reluctant to file police reports about acts of sexual violence because they believed the perpetrators would not be caught. Instead, they were contacting psychologists and doctors for help.

https://ssu.gov.ua/en/novyny/sbu-vstanovyla-vzhe-1140-rosiiskykh-zaharbnykiv-yaki-chynyly-zvirstva-proty-myrnoho-naselennia-na-kyivshchyni

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One of those occupiers who raped Ukrainian women is in the photo. This is Bulat Lenarovych FASSAKHOV, born on November 20, 2001.

Under the supervision of Kyiv Region Prosecutor’s Office, the SSU has notified him, in absentia, of suspicion of violating laws and customs of war.

He is a native of the Republic of Tatarstan, russia, and serves in the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 2nd guards combined army of the central military district of russia.

The SSU established that during the temporary occupation of one of the towns in Kyiv region this individual committed a number of war crimes against civilian population. Witnesses have identified him and confirmed the facts of crimes committed by him.

The criminal broke into a house of a Ukrainian family, locked them in the basement except for a young girl. Threatening to kill the whole family, the occupier raped the girl and later repeated the crime along with three accomplices.