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First Russian soldier to be tried for rape in Ukraine.

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The Prosecutor General's Office said it had completed the first investigation of rape during Russia's war in Ukraine. According to the investigation, a Russian soldier broke into a house in a village in Brovary District, Kyiv Oblast, in March, killed a man and, along with a comrade, repeatedly raped his wife. The case was sent to court.

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