Melinda Simmons
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The British Ambassador, Melinda Simmons, emphasized that russian soldiers use the rape of Ukrainian women in front of their families as a weapon of war.
She wrote about this on her Twitter.
Rape is a weapon of war. Though we don’t yet know the full extent of its use in #Ukraine it’s already clear it was part of 🇷🇺 arsenal. Women raped in front of their kids, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of subjugation. Rape is a war crime.
— Melinda Simmons (@MelSimmonsFCDO) April 3, 2022
"Rape is a weapon of war. Although we don't yet know the full extent of its use in Ukraine, it's already clear that it was part of russia's arsenal. Women raped in front of their children, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of subjugation." , - said Simmons.
The ambassador emphasized that rape is a war crime.
The russians admit that they are committing crimes against civilians in the temporarily occupied territories. The other day, the Security Service obtained the interceptions of telephone conversations, from which it became known that the russians had started raping underage girls and eating dogs.
After the liberation of the Kyiv region, the killings of civilians and the mass rape of women also became known. The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, said he was shocked by reports on russian atrocities in the Kyiv region and emphasized that new sanctions awaited Russia.