UKRAINE, Aug 13 — Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion, the General Prosecutor’s Office recorded 372 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, including 46 in Kharkiv Oblast, said Ukrainian Pravda.

Over three years, the law enforcement issued notices of suspicion to 87 Russian military personnel for committing CRSV in occupied territories in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv regions, and Russia.

Russians committed sexual violence against 236 women, 136 men, 19 minor girls, and one minor boy. 

“Ukrainians were raped, injured, threatened, forced to take their clothes off and to watch sexual abuse of loved ones, suffered sexual violence or attempts to commit it,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.

Currently, the Prosecutor’s Office has sent 45 indictments against 58 people to courts. Courts have already issued 12 verdicts against 19 individuals sentenced in absentia to imprisonment.

Also, in August, the Media Initiative for Human Rights reported that Russia kidnapped twin brothers from Vesele village in Kharkiv Oblast. They have been held in Russia for over three years.

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