"When I resisted, he strangled me and said he'll kill me. And he said that if do not undress he will kill me," she told CNN.Īt that point, the other soldier entered the room and warned Blue that he would have trouble with the rest of the unit if he pursued his apparent plan.īlue seemed unbothered by the warning, Dasha said, and his colleague left, telling him only to return to the unit in 30 minutes.
I told him that I will not, and (he) started shouting at me. "He started to shout, first telling me to undress. "When I came in, he first told me how he saved two people in our village - a mother with two children," she said.īut then the soldier, who Dasha later learned was from Donetsk and called "Blue" by other soldiers, became violent.
"First, he (the drunk soldier) called my mother into another room. Those stories are helping to paint a pattern of a Russian military, pockmarked by criminal behavior and, in this case, the alleged assault of a minor at her most vulnerable.ĭasha said that when the children, a 12 and 14-year-old girl, saw the soldiers in their kitchen, they were frightened. While the unrestrained violence around Kyiv has embodied the pointless savagery of Russia's onslaught against civilians, dark and untold stories of their brutality in tiny, distant villages, like Dasha's, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, are slowly emerging.