"A Ukrainian mother of four said she wanted to die after being raped for more than 12 hours by Russian soldiers."
"I don't want to live': Mother of four tells of anguish after she was pinned down and raped by two Russian soldiers during
12 hours of brutality"
"A Ukrainian mother of four said she wanted to die after being raped for more than 12 hours by Russian soldiers.
Elena – not her real name – was attacked on April 3 after a Russian sympathiser in the southern Kherson region told the troops
her husband was a Ukrainian soldier on the front line.
Describing the assault, Elena, a midwife, said she was in a shop at 3pm when the soldiers came in and began talking to customers.
One pointed at her and said, 'She's a banderovka!' – a term referring to Ukrainian wartime nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, who
collaborated with the Nazis to fight .
Elena said: 'I quickly left the shop. I just had time to get into my house. Two Russian soldiers came in through the door after me.
Without a word, they pushed me on to the bed. They held me down with a rifle and stripped me. They didn't say much.
Sometimes they called me 'banderovka' or they said 'your turn' to each other. Then, at 4am, they left.'
Sobbing, she said it left her feeling 'very disgusting', adding: 'I don't want to live.' She also vowed to find those who betrayed her,
warning: 'I will point the finger at the people who singled me out. I will point them out to my husband.'
Many men here have proudly proclaimed that they embrace the 'moral' principle of 'might makes right'.
Many men here have professed their hatred of Ukrainians, particularly alleged 'Banderivtsi', who deserve to be wiped out.
So it's reasonable to infer that at least some men here, however much they may pretend otherwise in public,
really admire or envy the Russian soldiers who evidently repeatedly raped this Ukrainian woman.
Why would these 'might makes right' men have any moral objection to taking women by force?