Russian leaves little daughter
Kiev wants to have identified the rapist of a four-year-old
03/15/2023 at 6:24 p.m
In the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, two Russian soldiers are said to have raped several women and children – including a four-year-old – in the Kiev region. The two Russians are said to be dead by now. According to human rights activists, one of the men is being celebrated as a hero in his home country.
Law enforcement authorities in Ukraine have accused two Russian soldiers of raping several women, teenagers and a four-year-old girl in the Kiev region in March last year. According to media reports, the two men are already dead.
The two snipers, aged 32 and 28, are said to have broken into a house where a couple lived with their daughter on March 13, 2022 in an occupied village near the town of Brovary. reported the Reuters news agency, citing documents from the Ukrainian public prosecutor’s office, which the journalists said they were able to see. Accordingly, the two drunken soldiers beat the father of the family and forced him to watch them rape his wife. According to this, one of the soldiers is said to have sexually abused the couple’s four-year-old daughter in the presence of the couple. According to the Reuters report, he is said to have said that he would “make a woman out of her”.
On the same day, the two Russians are said to have raped a pregnant woman and a young woman in another house and a mother and her underage daughter in a third house. According to Reuters, the underage victims were 15 and 17 years old. The reports cannot be independently verified.
The UN reported on the case in the fall
The case of abuse of the four-year-old was reported in the autumn of last year in two United Nations reports portrayed. Accordingly, the girl was forced to have oral sex. At the Munich Security Conference in February, US Vice President Kamala Harris spoke of crimes against humanity committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Included mentioned She also accused the four-year-old of being abused in the Kyiv region, citing UN reports.
According to the Reuters report, the Russian exile media did “Meduza” draws attention to the fact that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office in early March this year issued bills of indictment against the two Russian soldiers published had. These documents, issued by the National Police of Ukraine, name the two suspected war criminals. Accordingly, it is Vadim Shakhmatov and Yevgeny Chernoknishnyj. Both men were snipers in the 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which is stationed in the Samara region about 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow, according to Ukrainian police.
Alleged rapist posthumously awarded medals for bravery
According to the Reuters report, both are now dead. Shakhmatov died in Ukraine, according to the Reuters article, citing documents from the prosecutor’s office. Russian propaganda media reported on Chernoknishnyj’s death in April last year, as the Ukrainian NGO “Media Initiative for Human Rights” noted. Accordingly, he was buried with military honors. In October, the Russian news portal Orenday also wrote that Chernoknishnyj was posthumously awarded a medal for bravery. A commemorative plaque was also erected in a school in his home village of Chebotarevo in the Orenburg region.
The Ukrainian activists did in Russian social media too accounts found that allegedly belonged to Shakhmatov. One of the photos shows Shakhmatov together with Chernoknishny. Posted below is a song with the words “Are you ready, Nazis? The 15th is in action”. Kremlin claims Russia is fighting “Nazis” in Ukraine; with the “15.” probably refers to the infantry brigade in which the two men served.
According to social media, Shakhmatov was married and had a seven-year-old daughter. According to the indictment by the Ukrainian authorities, it was Shakhmatov who abused the four-year-old in March 2022 in the Kiev region, while Chernoknishnyj is said to have held her parents.