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Russian troops’ barbaric rape campaign in Ukraine includes 4-year-old girl: UN report
By Shane Galvin
Published Sep. 19, 2026, 4:37 p.m. ET
Russian troops carried out nearly 900 horrifying acts of sexual violence against Ukrainian civilians and POWs during the deadly war, including raping kids as little as 4-years-old, a disturbing new United Nations report found.
The “widespread” barbaric torture by strongman Vladimir Putin’s soldiers, prison staff and national security service officers included rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings of prisoners’ genitals, according to the findings.
Sixteen children were violently sexually assaulted among the 892 victims detailed in the report, which was released Friday by the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Russian soldiers, like the one pictured in Mariupol, have committed 892 acts of sexual violence against Ukrainians, according to the United Nations.
“I am deeply alarmed by the prevalence of these abhorrent acts … and fear that they are almost certainly continuing amid the unceasing violence we are witnessing every day in Ukraine,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in a statement.
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