The Kremlin turned the military crimes committed by russian army men in the Ukrainian occupied territories into a weapon that Moscow uses to crack the resistance and to destroy their victims – physically and mentally. According to Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Olena Kondratyuk, Ukraine’s law enforcers look into more than 16,000 military crimes committed since February 24, including five thousand murders and six thousand injuries among the civilian population. 

Every act of the aggression, every crime committed by the russian invaders is scary and hideous. Sexual violence against Ukrainian women, girls, men and children is especially disgusting. We learn about some of the crimes not from the victims because many of them were executed by russists. Some people are shocked, shut down inside or want to keep silence about humiliation and tortures. So many of these crimes become public thanks to the phone calls intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, in which the occupants speak with their relatives in russia. 

A russist named Maks who fights somewhere in southern Ukraine tells his wife that he executes civilians, throws grenades into the basements where they hide and cuts off their ears. Enjoying the moment, he says: “Guys told me that there’s a detachment… they caught a chick and cut off her tongue so that she could not tell anyone. Well, they f***ed her and killed her after that”.

It becomes clear that the russist (who swears a lot during the entire conversation) tells a story about the “thug squad” who raped and killed a woman. The other bandit named Ulan tells someone – perhaps, his mother – about looting and raping a teenager. 

“Our guys returned to russia… well, me and the other soldier came there for business. They’ve got FSB agents schmoozing stuff there, they even took their fishing rods away and almost arrested them. Do you remember the image of a quad bike I sent you? We tried to move it and sell it; we even took the fishing rods, too. They caught a looter who tried to move the TV set. Some guy raped a 15-year-old girl in the village nearby”.

“Whoah, so that's what the Nazis are doing, right?”, asks the lady who is clearly brainwashed by the russian propaganda. She clearly believes that the crime was committed by the ‘neo-Nazis’, which is how they call Ukrainians on the russian TV. “Nope, these are our soldiers”, the occupant replies confidently.

The SBU finished the investigation in the first rape case during the war. The investigators of the Ukrainian special service collected enough evidence to judge the russian serviceman who is suspected of murdering and raping a female resident of Kyiv region. The bastard’s name is Mikhail Sergeyevich Romanov (see the image); he serves with the military unit No.8954 based in the town of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk oblast of russia. The SBU found out that the drunken russist broke into a house of a young family and, without any hesitation, killed a young unarmed man. Then, he threatened to kill the woman as well, and raped her together with his comrade. 

The photo belongs to the SBU