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Russian military suspected of raping woman in Chernigov region
2024-10-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
It’s good to see the Russian military arrest and try soldiers for what used to be an expected wartime perk.
[Korrespondent] The pre-trial investigation is still ongoing.

The occupiers illegally detained the woman, allegedly suspecting her of collaborating with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The victim was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.


Three Russian servicemen aged 28, 30 and 37 have been declared suspects in violating the laws and customs of war. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Chernihiv region.

According to law enforcement officials, three residents of the Republic of Tyva (RF) illegally detained a woman in the village of Yagodnoye in the Chernihiv region in early March 2022, allegedly suspecting her of collaborating with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They took her to a house where they brutally beat her and committed sexual violence.

Later, not satisfied with the above, the invaders transferred the woman to the "death cellar" in the school in the village of Yagodnoye. There they drove out of one of the rooms all the civilians inside and repeated their criminal actions against the victim.

The pre-trial investigation continues.

Let us recall that in the temporarily occupied Starobelsk region, a Russian soldier raped and killed two girls.

It was also reported that the Russian occupier who committed sexual violence against a woman during the temporary occupation of the right-bank part of the Kherson region was declared a suspect.

Posted by:badanov

#4  Surprising when they emptied out prisons to feed the carnage on the front line? Given how much they waste in burning up Ukie ammo with cannon fodder, what would the line dog think that the 'authorities' would do to them that was worse?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-10-22 13:45  

#3  The point is soldiers from either side ain't s'posed to be using military means against civilians
Posted by: badanov   2024-10-22 13:14  

#2  I dunno but, from what I've heard, Red Army soldiers had themselves quite a party when they finally got to Berlin. When Stalin told them "Berlin is yours", he meant it in more ways than one. I'd hate to have them doing the same in Ukraine. There's enough bad blood between those people as it is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-10-22 11:49  

#1  The Russian military, as with the Soviet military, and as with the Imperial Russian military always have regarded acts of war committed against the civilian population as acts that shame the uniform, and have always been treated as crimes, not perquisites.

How they are dealt with will depend on the tactical commander at the time of the commission of the crime, and could include non judicial punishment (Article 15, Captain's mast, etc), through the stripping of ranks and rewards, to exile, to imprisonment, to execution (drumheads).

The main difference is how news of the alleged crime is handled. Russians prefer to handle their judicial matters discretely. They prefer to let the detractors squawk as criminal matters are quietly closed and they move on to the business of victory.
Posted by: badanov   2024-10-22 10:31  

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