Russian soldier Mumadi Magomedov charged in absentia with raping minor in Kherson Oblast

A Russian soldier who participated in the occupation of a part of the Kherson Region (Oblast) has been served with a notice of suspicion in absentia for violating the laws and customs of war, the Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People reported.

The suspect/ Photo: The Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People

The suspect is Mumadi Magomedov.

Investigators say that at the time of the crime, he was serving as a medic in a motorised rifle company of the 70th Motorised Rifle Regiment, part of the 42nd Motorised Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army within the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

Magomedov is suspected of abducting a minor from a village street on March 24, 2024, along with an unidentified Russian soldier using the call sign “Khoma”.

The girl was distracted when asked for the time. While she was taking out her mobile phone to check, Khoma opened the rear door of the car, grabbed the girl’s arms, and forcibly pulled her into the seat, according to case files.

The girl was then forced to take an unidentified pill, which caused her to become intoxicated. Both men sexually assaulted her in the vehicle and later in a house where they subsequently took her.

Ukrainian courts have already handed down 19 verdicts against Russians who committed conflict-related sexual violence against civilians.

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Ukrainian law enforcement officials have repeatedly emphasised that Russia uses sexual violence as a weapon of war, a stance echoed by the United Nations.

ZMINA news outlet has reported on some identified Russian servicemen suspected of committing such crimes, including:

• Shamil Makhmudov, who is accused of raping a woman during the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region;
• Artem Pronchenko and Oleksandr Gladkov, who allegedly kidnapped, beat, and raped a mother of two children in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region;
• Roman Popov, suspected of raping an illegally detained man in Kherson;
• Yevhen Chornoknyzhnyi and Vadym Shakhmatov, suspected of a series of rapes in the Kyiv region in 2022;
• Oleksandr Radnatarov, Kyrylo Kholmurzayev, and Belikt Zhugdurov, suspected of raping a woman in the Kyiv region after threatening to kill her mother and child;
• Akhmerov Emil, Mammi Mammiiev, and Kostyantyn Shlyapnikov, who is accused of abduction in 2022 a woman from her home and raped her in the Kharkiv region;
• Baila Bardanova, suspected of raping a woman in the Kyiv region;
• Rinat Khakimyanov and Arslan Salikhov, suspected of raping a pregnant woman in the Kyiv region;
• Bulat Fassakhov, suspected of a rape that lasted several days in the Kyiv region;
• Mykhailo Romanov, accused of raping a woman in the village of Shevchenkove in the Kyiv region. This case was one of the first such incidents to become known in the media.

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