Lyudmila Denisova told the BBC that the victims – aged between 14 and 24 – were attacked after being found “in the basement of a house in Butsa”, the brutal suburb of the capital Kiev where hundreds of bodies were later found on the street. “Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they would not want to have sex with any man, to prevent them from having children from Ukraine,” the human rights ombudsman told the station. Some of the rapist soldiers even hit in public to send a warning to others who were watching, officials said on Tuesday. “A 25-year-old called to tell us that her 16-year-old sister was raped on the street in front of her. “She said they were screaming, ‘This is going to happen to any Nazi prostitute’ as they raped her sister,” Denisova said. The horrific bills are only the most recent to emerge from the war, with much more likely to come out, the official said. Russian troops “systematically raped” 25 girls and women from Ukraine up to 14 years old. Carol Guzy / ZUMA Press WireA woman bears the portrait of a civilian killed during the war with Russia. Rodrigo Abd / APA woman sits next to a plastic bag containing her son’s body. Rodrigo Abd / APA At least 191 children were confirmed dead during the Russian invasion. Carol Guzy / ZUMA Press Wire Denisova said it was “impossible” to know how widespread such sexual assaults were “because not everyone is willing to tell us what happened to them”. “Most of them are currently seeking psychological support, so we can not register them as crimes if they do not give us their testimony,” he told the BBC. The human rights official also gave regular updates to the Telegram, saying on Wednesday that at least 191 children had been confirmed dead during the invasion, an average of at least five a day – but with the actual report probably much higher. Ukrainians are hugged after the burial of their loved ones. Rodrigo Abd / AP Corpses exhumed from Sergei Supinsky / AFP mass grave via Getty Images “It is impossible to determine the true number of dead and injured children due to the fact that the occupying forces are actively fighting in the cities of Ukraine,” he said. “Such actions by the Russian occupation forces are a direct violation of the Hague and Geneva Conventions,” he wrote. “The attacker continues to provocatively violate the fundamental rights of children – the right to life and health guaranteed to every child in the world by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.” The bodies are loaded onto a crane as they are removed from a mass grave in Bucha.Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images The bodies are stacked in a truck to be transported to a morgue for identification. Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty Images A volunteer rests after loading body bags into a truck. Rodrigo Abd / AP Nearly 1,000 educational institutions have also been damaged, while 88 have been completely destroyed, he said.
