"It seems to have fetish at the genitals": occupiers are increasingly rape Ukrainian men

Human rights observers have long reported the use of sexual violence by Russian security forces against prisoners and detainees in Russia. Now, Russia seems to export this practice to occupied Ukraine. According to Ukrainian prosecutors, more and more men are victims of sexual violence in the occupied territories. Such crimes are often not told about such crimes, so it is difficult to establish them.

The last annual report of the UN Security Council on the War in Ukraine states that in 2023, 85 cases were documented in Ukraine, which were injured in 52 men, 31 women, one girl and one boy. A separate report of the UN Human Rights Defenders, who interviewed 60 Ukrainian prisoners of war after their release, found that 39 were affected by sexual abuse during Russian imprisonment. "We see it again and again in different occupied regions.

They use the same method of committing sexual violence, the same method of humiliation, the same way as they explain it to their victims," ​​said the prosecutor of the Prosecutor General's Office Anna Sosonskaya. She said that a considerable number of documented sexual violence crimes, including forced undresses, genital injury, rape and forced sexual abuse against others, were carried out against men.

"Especially with the help of electricity on the genital organs is the upper part of the list. It is in every region that was occupied. Everywhere where Russian troops were stationed, we see cases Russian politics, "she said.

As of the beginning of May, 293 cases of sexual violence have been officially recorded in Ukraine, however, according to Soson, to estimate the real number of crimes committed, especially in the occupied territories that remain inaccessible to the investigation and prosecutor's office. Kherson resident Roman Shapovalenko was detained by the occupiers during the occupation of the city.

Three armed FSB officers of Russia in masks burst into his house, turned his stoos in the bottom, looking for some evidence. All because in a private conversation, Shapovalenko called them "orcs" and someone conveyed. According to him, he was tied, blindfolded and stuffed into the car without distinctive signs. The man said that during his detention, he was repeatedly beaten in the genital area, threatened with a glass bottle rape and even forced to believe that it could be sterilized.

"It seems they had a fetish at the genitals. Sometimes the door opened, and they said," We will pull out the sticks and rape everyone here, "said the man. 39-year-old Alexei Sivak knew that the Russians were going to him after they were taken away The neighbor Shapovalenko, with whom they pasted Ukrainian flags around their neighborhood on the Independence Day of Ukraine in Kherson. We knew that people did not return from there.

I went to distribute the soup, warned the people who helped, cut off all the connections and came home to wait, "he said. He did In words, he was arrested by eight men - four in military uniform and four in civilians, all with closed faces. The help of the same field phone, which was used in other places of imprisonment. At first I was put clamps on my ears and during the action of the current, both a stick and my feet and my hands, then these wires from my ears to the genitals moved.

They said, "We will sterilize you now" and the like, as long as they beat my genitals, "he said. The wires from my ears to the genitals were moved. They said, "We will sterilize you now" and the like, as long as they beat my genitals. "Sivak believes well why Russian troops have decided to torture and threatened with rape. He says that the Russians tried to humiliate it with such actions And of the dozens of men with whom it was held, about half has been sexually abused.

Four people (tormented me), but they were just fools. Yes, they have no brains, yes, they are animals, but even if they are planted, what about their bosses? Someone managed them; Someone gave them orders, "Sivak said. The Ukrainian military novel Chernenko was captured in the Russian invaders in the Mariupol direction. A 29-year-old man served in intelligence. He spent 7 months in a" penalty "Olenivka prison in Donetsk. that was tortured three times a day for four months.

One connected to your eggs, the other to your finger and they just increase the current. They simply continue to twist until a person tells them what they need, "he said. According to him, the torture was attended . Twice carried to the shooting, threatened with rape, "he said. Kherson Andrew, who was held in one of the Russian detention facilities, still remembers the cries of his comrades, who were also arrested. Everyone is tortured in the next room.

I have not heard of conversations, just screams and moans. It was impossible to sleep from these screams. I do not know who this man is and what happened to him. He was brought to a corridor where he was raped by a stick to be heard and seen, "he said. According to Andrew, the threats of rape and lesions of the genital organs were the norm among the Russian military. " They liked it. They have fun, "he said.