A 77-year-old former secondary school teacher in a neat dress and hat, creates a quiet revolution in the villages of the southern Kherson region of Ukraine.
A group of 10 women in a tent in the center of a village southern Ukraine, last summer explained the suffering from the Russian occupation three years ago.
“What I have passed,” he said, a woman named Liudmyla and hesitated his voice. “I was beaten, raped, but still thank these people.”
Lidmyla and other two survivors last year, Tetyana, 61 and Alisa Kovalenko, 37, spoke at a number of village meetings to increase awareness about the conflict-related sexual violence. The meetings are one of the first efforts of an obvious aspect of Ukraine’s most painful aspects of the Russian occupation: Prosecutors and humanitarian workers have sexual aggression of Ukrainian women under the Russian occupation.
Liudmyla and Tetyana, the surnames and village names to protect their privacy were not published. Ms. Kovalenko spoke clearly in the eastern Ukrainian eastern separatists in the war in 2014.
Relatively few in Ukraine, in the conflict, in the conflict, in the conflict, especially in the deep and conservative Sex in the deep and conservative Ukrainian society, they put forward the events in the conflict during the conflict. Prosecutors have registered more than 344 of sexual violence in the conflict in Ukraine since the Russian occupation of February 2022, and 220 of them, including women, including 16 women.
However, women’s groups, in almost every case of the occupation of the actual number, at least one case with the Russian troops. The United Nations Human Rights Reports documented dozens of sexual violence by Russian soldiers, but there is no detailed evidence of any abuses by Ukrainian soldiers. One Last Report He noted only the two works of human rights violations against the alleged authorities committed by the Ukrainian government. ”
Support teams and legal organizations, health services and psychological rehabilitation and psychological rehabilitation in the 800th settlement, but all of them are ready to testify to the police, he said. Many sacrifices are silent and isolated and in some cases, in some cases, SEMA is part of the global union covering 26 countries that helped 20 countries with psychological, medical, legal and financial support.
In 2019, IRYNA was established by Dovhan, the survivor himself vious attack In 2014, Armed Separatists in eastern Ukraine, SEMA Ukraine encouraged to bring more than 15 surviving 8 survivors to 15, and joining the society.
This month, Ms. Dovhan, SEMA A group of Ukrainian women’s status of the United Nations demonstrates a film where a group of sexual violence will show some of the sexual violence in the war. Along with the survor of a group of Ukraine, an appeal is called by a party that is responsible for the crimes of Ukraine, the Secretary-General of Ukraine in Ukraine.
Liudmyla was one of the few people who attacked the Ukrainian police. After escaping the daughter, Olha and Russia, he insisted the report. “I was against it,” said Liudmyli was reminded of an interview. “But Olha said that the Russians had to pay. Of course, this was the right to expose the crime.”
As he described, the attack on him was especially cruel. A soldier took a night at 10:30 in July 2022 at 10:30. He intimidated the door and the soldier hit him with a rifle butt, beat his front teeth. He dragged him out of the hair, and many times in the ribs and kidneys and threw him into the board. Cut with a knife on the abdomen and then raped him.
“I was helpless against him,” he said. He left six hours later, saying that he would be back in two days and killing him with a bullet.
Liudmyla, who had four broken ribs, hid in his neighbor’s house, and then traveled to a family in Ukraine to join his daughter.
Later, tuberculosis was diagnosed and six months were hospitalized. “I was depressed, I couldn’t eat,” he said.
However, two years later the incident, he found a goal in speaking to women’s groups. He said SEMA helped the survivors of the survivors in Ukraine to his recovery.
The SEMA network was built in 2017 by Denis Mukhire of the Democratic Republic of Democratic Republic of Democratic Republic, who has been ten years with victims of sexual violence. The network brings together the solidarity of communities, to help women speak and tell their truth and stand up for their rights. The word SEMA means “talking” in Swahili.
“Thank you to this community, I started eating,” said Liudmy.
“I am aggressive in the world, even civilians, even civilians, and even in civilians, together.”
Mrs. Kovalenko, one of the first women to join the sky in 2019, celebrated many female expressions for a filmmist, documentary. “It is important to talk in these rural communities,” he said. “It can help reduce the level of stigma so that people have not been tried.”
Ms. Kovalenko was sexually raped in an apartment and a Russian scout, as a director of the Eastern conflict in 2014. He was one of the first women in Ukraine, and his exams belong to the public and legal organizations.
“Compared to 2019, women are a revolution that women are talking now,” he said. “A woman speaks like a Mefodiivna and a woman in Tetyan is a true revolution.” During his respect, my cunning was called liudmylia by Mefodiivna.
Volodymyr, a store in a village in the Kherson, Tetyana, who was a store with VolodyMyr, first gave the first meeting of the New York Times to a journalist and spoke for the first time in a village meeting.
Russian soldiers often visited their villages often visited their store and entered their homes in April 2022. They hit the Volodymyr – managed to avoid the bullet and hid, he said – but they caught Tetyana as he tried to escape. They closed him to the ground in the yard, pulled their hair and beat and then one of the men rape. They only left when an artillery attack was started in the village.
After the month, he was consulted and hospitalized and refugees, Tetyan, anger and hatred, but he could not stand the physical touch of a person who was his wife. SEMA was unsure to speak at a meeting organized by Ukraine.
He finally spoke but said that as the victim of sexual Assault, the trauma said the scenario and how he would help them.
The most important idea considered the most important thing was to convince the victims that they were safe.
For a long time, he compared the trauma of sexual violence for the sand blocked in an hour. “If it is blocked, nothing will pass.”
It was clear that he spoke about the experience, but he talked to women in the audience living with the occupying terror. A woman said he was buried under the rubble when his house was hit by a shell, and the other said the other had to host Russian soldiers in his house.
“After living in the occupied communities, we have a slightly vicarious trauma,” Tocketyan said. “You need to run your pain to avoid you for a very long time.”
