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Rape used in Ukraine as a Russian ‘military strategy’
The Hindu | 14/10/2022 07:49 PM | Click to read full article
Rape and sexual assault attributed to Moscow’s forces in Ukraine are part of a Russian “military strategy” and a “deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims”, U.N. envoy Pramila Patten told AFP in an interview.
“All the indications are there,” the U.N. special representative on sexual violence told AFP on Thursday, when asked if rape was being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine .
