US urges UN to study report on sexual violence against Ukrainian women by Russian military

Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged the UN members to read the report during her speech at the UN Security Council, Espreso TV reports.

"Last week, The New York Times detailed the harrowing accounts from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office of well-documented cases of sexual violence committed against women, men, and children by Russian Federation forces. I strongly encourage everyone – everyone at this table and listening here today – to read this report. The details are too awful, too sickening for me to recount here today," the US ambassador said.

In addition, the US representative noted that numerous testimonies of sexual violence and torture were also documented by UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry.

Earlier, the Commission found evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine: sexual violence, illegal detention, torture, ill-treatment, executions.