Reports of human trafficking and rape perpetrated on fleeing women and children increasing in Ukraine, UN says.
A woman with arrives with her child at at a displaced persons' hub in Zaporizhzhia, 124 miles northwest of Mariupol, on April 5. Photo: Bulnt Kilic/AFP via Getty Imagesare increasing in Ukraine, Sima Bahous, the United Nations executive director for women told the U.N. Security Council Monday.
in the city of Kramatorsk while they were waiting to leave Ukraine, warning: "This trauma risks destroying a generation."Kateryna Cherepakha, president of rights group La Strada-Ukraine, said local organizations were collecting survivor testimonies about war crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops.
She said Russian forces had used violence and rape as weapons of war, noting the increased vulnerability of women and girls to the threat of kidnapping, torture and killing, but she said: "We don't want you to look at us only as victims of Russian invasion.
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