Evidence some Ukrainian women raped before being killed, say doctors

Forensic specialists carrying out autopsies north of Kyiv say they still have hundreds of bodies to examine'

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Forensic doctors carrying out postmortem examinations on bodies in mass graves north of Kyiv say they have found evidence some women were raped before being killed by Russian forces.

We already have a few cases which suggest that these women had been raped before being shot to death," said Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor who with a team of coroners has carried out dozens of autopsies on residents from Bucha, Irpin and Borodianka who died during Russia's month-long occupation of the area.