Ukrainian woman recounts being raped by Russian troops who killed her husband

A Ukrainian woman has asserted that she was raped by Russian troops moments after her husband was killed, while her scared four-year-old son was crying in the other room. Her allegations will now be investigated by officials.

"I heard a single shot, the sounds of the gate opening and then the sound of footsteps in the house," the woman told The Times.

The woman said on 9th March, Russian troops had first killed her pet dog, then came back to kill her husband. "I cried out, 'Where is my husband?' Then I looked outside and I saw him lying on the floor by the gate. This younger guy pulled a gun to my head and said, 'I shot your husband because he's a Nazi.'" she said.

Then the Russian troops raped her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her if she did not 'shut up', she said. "He said 'you'd better shut up or I'll get your child and show him his mother's brains spread around the house," she told the media.

"He told me to take my clothes off. Then they both raped me one after the other. They didn't care that my son was in the boiler room crying. They told me to go shut him up and come back. All the time they held the gun by my head and taunted me -- shall we kill her or keep her alive?'" the woman recalled.

The Ukrainian woman has now fled the country, leaving the dead body of her husband behind. "We cannot bury him, we cannot get to the village, because the village is still occupied," she said.

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