United Nations logo. File photoROME, Jun 6The UN has sent teams of investigators to Ukraine to look into reports of sexual violence, Pramila Patten, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, said, saying that such incidents took place «not only on one side» of the conflict. Representatives of a number of Western states in The United Nations, including the United States and Britain, regularly accuse the Russian military of allegedly committing sexual violence against women and girls in Ukraine. There is no concrete evidence to support these accusations. Russia refutes these claims.The head of the Human Rights Council called for the trial of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine «I have been in Kyiv and Lvov, I have not personally met with victims of sexual violence, but I have met with non-governmental organizations and government officials who reported extensive documentation of cases of sexual violence that they are investigating <…> The UN sent teams of investigators to the field to understand how many cases there were and collect documentation, obviously it takes time to do the necessary checks, but this is a necessary work, «Patten said in an interview with the Italian newspaper la Stampa. She noted that she received information about such cases involving minors, as well as under the threat of murder or in the presence of family members of the victim. According to Patten, rape in Ukraine is used as a means of combat. Its victims are «Ukrainian women and men,» but the perpetrators of the crimes are not only on one side of the conflict, she added. officials in Kyiv when I was there, and I must say that there was neither denial nor opposition on their part,» the representative of the Secretary General said. She also said that she intends to meet with Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzey this week.Atrocities and sadism of the Ukrainian national battalions: the case of «Tornado» «Tornado» is a national battalion that fell under the Ukrainian court for numerous atrocities on the territory of Ukraine. It was created from veterans of the ATO — the Shakhtersk national battalion, disbanded due to looting and war crimes. But he surpassed him in the enormity of his crimes. Sadists from this battalion were released from prisons in March and sent to the front. The UN Security Council on Monday will discuss the problems of sexual violence and human trafficking in conflicts against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine. Patten will give a presentation via video link. Speeches by members of civil society are planned. The meeting is expected to be attended by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. Last week, the Verkhovna Rada voted to dismiss Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, who is known, among other things, for many statements about cases of sexual violence against Ukrainian citizens allegedly by the Russian military. Pavel Frolov, a deputy from the Servant of the People party, said then that «the incomprehensible concentration of the Ombudsman's media work on numerous details of» sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way, «which she could not confirm with evidence, only harmed Ukraine.» In turn, the chairman of the committee on criminal and the administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, Elena Shishkina told RIA Novosti about the rapes committed by the Ukrainian military. According to her, the range of «articles of war crimes of Ukrainian militants is much wider than that of the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.» We are talking about the genocide of the Russian-speaking population, the use of unlawful measures of warfare, the taking of hostages, the use of slave labor, the use of the civilian population as human shields, deliberate killings, causing bodily harm, including serious harm, theft, looting, torture, rape.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/9cda13eab57b45b791d012c1b3fde1f6.jpg" />«The political instructor is lying»: Goebbels' methods are still in demand by the West said in an interview with RIA Novosti the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin. He said that there is evidence that «some representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed no less terrible and monstrous crimes related to torture, rape, sadistic murders and other things — worse, maybe somewhere, than individual representatives of Azov» (nationalist regiment, against whose fighters criminal cases have been initiated in Russia). Russia rejects the insinuations of a number of Western countries accusing the Russian military of violence against the civilian population of Ukraine, Gennady Kuzmin, deputy representative of the Russian Federation at the organization, noted earlier at a UN Security Council meeting.
Ukrainian officer charged with murder and sexual assault
