Security Council on June 6: “It is on Russia to stop rape, violence and atrocities from within its ranks.” Russia has denounced as “lies” allegations that its soldiers are committing rape in Ukraine.Īs of June 3, the United Nations had received reports of 124 incidents of sexual violence, some allegedly committed by Russian troops. “We have all heard the accounts of horrific acts of sexual violence, reports of gang rape, rape in front of family members, sexual assault at gunpoint, women who have become pregnant as a result of rape, as well as reports of refugee women and children being exploited by traffickers and predators who view this turmoil not as a tragedy, but as an opportunity to abuse the vulnerable.” “We have all seen the harrowing images of this conflict, of the bodies of women and girls strewn naked in the streets, and of women and children killed while trying to flee to safety,” Patten said. Russian troops are reportedly using sexual violence as a weapon of war in Ukraine. The war, meanwhile, is now mostly concentrated in the eastern part of Ukraine. Almost seven million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the war, 4.7 million of which are scattered around Europe, according to the United Nations. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in an unprovoked act of aggression.
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The event was part of a series of high-level discussions being convened by the Institute on “holding perpetrators accountable for crimes against humanity and for violations of humanitarian and human rights during the conflict in Ukraine,” said USIP President and CEO Lise Grande. Patten spoke at an event at USIP on June 6. “Although there is never accurate bookkeeping on an active battlefield,” she said, “it is clear that in the context of Ukraine, all the warning signals for the commission of atrocity crimes, including conflict-related sexual violence, are flashing red.” Patten sounded the alarm on the incidence of conflict-related sexual violence being committed in Ukraine. Russia’s war in Ukraine is rapidly leading to a human trafficking crisis.
She said there is an urgent need for a “coordinated regional approach” to what she described as “a crisis within a crisis.” Refugees from Ukraine wait for a bus after crossing the Polish border on March 7, 2022. The humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine is rapidly turning into a human trafficking one in which women and children, who make up the majority of the refugees fleeing the war, are being exploited, according to the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten.
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