Oleksii Sivak's Torture Struggle

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‘Carved on bodies and souls’: survivor tells of Russia’s use of male sexual torture in Ukraine

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UN commissioner for human rights has documented hundreds of cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian troops.

Two-thirds of the victims are men and boys who were tortured in Russian jails.

Oleksii Sivak has set up Ukraine ’s first support network for male survivors.

He wants the survivor network to be a beacon for those trying to recover.

Two-thirds of male prisoners of war and detained medics interviewed by the UN since March 2023 had survived some form of sexual abuse in Russian prisons.

Sivak believes sexual violence is so normalised in Russian jails that most Ukrainians held there are survivors.

“Probably almost every man freed from captivity is part of our network,” he said.

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