Ukrainian woman alleges gang-rape by drunk Russian soldiers as her 4-year-old son wept in boiler room

Frozen at the sight of her husband’s murder, Natalya pushed her 4-yer-old son to hide in the boiler room, where the family had been sheltering to protect themselves from the shelling by the Russian troops. The incident took place in Shevchenkove, a village just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.  

KYIV: Amid the ongoing war with Russia, a Ukrainian woman has alleged that she was gang-raped by drunk Russian soldiers for hours while her four-year-old son hid crying in a boiler room. Breaking her silence probably for the first time, Natalya (name changed), 33, alleged that the drunk Russian soldiers gang-raped her minutes after killing her husband.

According to a Daily Mail report, Natalya while narrating the horror also revealed how a Russian commander and his soldiers barged into her family's home located in a small village near Kyiv on the night of March 9. They also killed my husband Andrey, 33, in the front yard, she said.

After killing her husband, Natalya saw a Russian commander - who told her his name was Mikhail Romanov - and another soldier dressed in black, entering her house while looking for other family members.  

Frozen at the sight of her husband’s murder, Natalya pushed her 4-yer-old son to hide in the boiler room, where the family had been sheltering to protect themselves from the shelling by the Russian troops. The incident took place in Shevchenkove, a village just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.     

The Ukrainian woman said that she was threatened by the Russian soldier to keep quiet lest she would be killed. Natalya was then raped by the two Russian soldiers at the gunpoint for hours while her son kept sobbing in the boiler room.