A Russian soldier must have kept a young Ukrainian woman as a sex slave for over a year.
The 21-year-old woman was kept locked in an apartment in the Russian city of Belgorod-with iron bars for the windows.
Ukraine’s national police are now investigating rape, sexual slavery and deportation.
The soldier will, at the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, in March 2022, repeatedly taken his home into the woman’s home in the Izyumsky district, where she lived with her family.
He often came to visit the family’s home and pushed her into sexual intercourse. In April he must have raped her twice, threatened her with weapons and injured her family.
Investigated for several serious crimes
According to the Ukrainian authorities, the soldier is to belong to the first motorized rifle regiment in Russia’s western military district.
Now the Ukrainian police officer is investigating the soldier for rape, sexual slavery and deportation of the Ukrainian woman, reports Kyiv Post.
According to the crime suspicions, the 21-year-old woman in June 2022 was forced to accompany the man and two other Russian soldiers-“Ibrahim” and “Maga”-to Belgorod in Russia. There she must have been locked up for over a year.
The apartment was locked and had iron grilles in front of the windows.
Tried to commit suicide
The woman says she was abused and raped repeatedly. In January 2023, she tried to take her life by drinking boric acid. It was not successful, and she was taken to hospital. When she was printed, she was sent back to the apartment.
When the soldier who held the woman prisoner was arrested for deserting, the woman managed to get in touch with relatives and could escape back to Ukraine. She is now supported by doctors and psychologists.
Denies grids in front of the windows
According to the property owner where the woman was held the prisoner, the man must have rented the apartment and is said to have lived there “as a couple” with the woman. According to a relative of the property owner, there should have been no grids in front of the windows.
The man denies all charges, but admits that he participated in the Russian invasion, but not as a soldier. He claims that he was unarmed, was just “a driver who delivered food” to the locals, and that the woman should have traveled to Belgorod voluntarily.
Ukrainian authorities continue to investigate the case.