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Ukrainian mum 'raped several times in front of child' moments after husband shot

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Ukrainian woman was allegedly raped several times in front of her children just moments after her husband had been shot dead by Russian soldiers in their home.

The assault is alleged to have taken place in a town near Kyiv in the same room as her small child, with Ukrainian politician Maria Mezentseva speaking of the horrible crime as an example of Russian atrocities.

Ukraine's prosecutor-general Iryna Venediktova opened the country's first official rape investigation after a drunken soldier is said to have repeatedly raped a woman.The soldier is also said to have broken into the family's home and killed the husband.Venediktova says that two soldiers attacked the woman in Brovary, east Kyiv and that one had been identified and charges are being brought.The prosecutor-general added that after shooting the husband dead and sexually assaulting the wife, the pair threatened the child with weapons.

Mezentseva, the head of Ukraine's Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has said Ukraine will "not be silent" over the sex attacks and has said details of sex attacks must be recorded as they happen because "justice has to prevail".

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