Russian Soldier Burns Swastika On Woman's Body After Raping, Killing Her: Ukrainian MP
KEY POINTS
- Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko claimed Russian troops burned swastikas onto the bodies of some of their victims
- The politician also alleged that soldiers have raped girls in Ukraine as young as 10 years old
- Ukraine has accused Russia of committing "the most terrible war crimes" since World War II
Russian soldiers allegedly raped and killed a woman before burning a swastika onto her dead body amid the war in Ukraine.
The claims came from Ukrainian parliament member Lesia Vasylenko, who also alleged that Russian troops have raped girls as young as age 10.
Vasylenko shared a gruesome image on Twitter of what she said was the "tortured body of a raped and killed woman."
"I'm speechless. My mind is paralyzed with anger and fear and hatred," the 35-year-old politician wrote Sunday alongside the photo showing the unidentified woman's torso with a swastika burned and scratched onto it.
In a follow-up tweet, she wrote: "Russian soldiers loot, rape and kill. 10 y.o. girls with vaginal and rectal tears. Women with swastika-shaped burns. Russia. Russian men did this. And Russian mothers raised them. A nation of immoral criminals."
International Business Times has not been able to verify the claims and the photo.
"Pro-Russian forces" found the body at a "Ukrainian military compound," Russian state-controlled media outlet RT claimed, according to The Independent.
The Russian Investigative Committee claimed that Ukrainian nationalists from the Azov Battalion, a far-right Neo-Nazi group now fighting under Ukraine's Armed Forces, tortured the woman in the city of Mariupol.
The woman was allegedly found in the basement of one of the city's schools, according to the committee.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of committing "the most terrible war crimes" since World War II as he addressed the United Nations Security Council Tuesday.
The head of state showed a short video of burned, bloodied and mutilated bodies, including children, in Bucha, Mariupol, Irpin and Dymerka.
Up to 300 people may have been buried in mass graves found in the city of Bucha, where Russian troops were accused of killing civilians, a report by CNN said.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia insisted that Russian troops were not targeting civilians and that "not a single civilian suffered from any kind of violence" while Bucha was occupied.
Nebenzia also dismissed accusations of abuse as lies.
Following news of the Bucha killings, the U.S., several members of the Group of Seven and the European Union coordinated on new sanctions against Russia, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
The new sanctions, which will target Russian financial institutions and officials, were set to be announced Wednesday.
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