According to an investigation by RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Ukrainian security services intercept a phone call between a Russian soldier and his wife in which she can be heard giving him permission to rape Ukrainian women.
According to RFE/RL, the Security Service of Ukraine said they intercept the call between a couple in their twenties in the Kherson region of Ukraine.
A woman can be heard giving her husband the go-ahead to commit a war crime in an excerpt of the call released by the SSU and analyzed by RFE/RL.
She said you should rape Ukrainian women and not tell her anything. Understood?
She can be heard laughing after the man asks her for her explicit permission to rape women.
The woman says that she allows it, per the audio excerpt.
RFE/RL linked social media accounts to telephone numbers provided by the SSU to identify participants in the call. RFE/RL said that the soldier denied he was the person on the call, but his and his wife's voices matched those heard in the audio recordings.
RFE/RL said that no charges have been filed against the soldier or the couple.
The wife told the RFE/RL reporter that her husband had been wounded and was in a hospital in the port of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. RFE/RL said that she wouldn't answer any other questions.
The media outlet noted that the couple may have been joking during the call, but it comes amid a flurry of allegations by Ukrainian women that they have been raped.
The Ukrainian Ombudswoman for human rights said that 25 girls and women were raped in the basement of one house.
According to Human Rights Watch, a woman in Rohan Malaya, a village in the Kharkiv region, said she was raped multiple times by a soldier who entered the school where her family was hiding.
The woman told The Times that she was raped after her husband's death.
Kira Rudyk, a Ukrainian MP, told CBS News that rape is happening systematically in areas being occupied by the Russian.
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