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Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has accused Russian troops of raping women as they rampage across Ukraine.
The minister said there were numerous “numerous” cases of women being targeted.
Kuleba who was addressing the Chatham House foreign affairs think-tank via a video link, said: “When bombs fall on your cities, when soldiers rape women in the occupied cities – and we have numerous cases of, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in Ukrainian cities – it’s difficult of course to speak about the efficiency of international law.
“But this is the only tool of civilisation that is available to us, to make sure that in the end, eventually, all those who made this war possible will be brought to justice, and the Russian Federation, as a country that committed an act of aggression, will be held accountable for its deeds.”
Former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who spoke at the same event, called for Vladimir Putin to face a Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal.
Brown said the Russian premier should be held to account for atrocities committed as his forces ravage Ukraine.
