DO NOT BE SILENT – НЕ МОВЧІТЬ

On this international day to combat violence against women, Save Ukraine with SEMA Association and @SEMA-Ukraine, call to talk about the violence that Russian soldiers and officers deliberately committed against Ukrainian women in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

On this occasion, on November 22, 2024, a conference-testimony was held “DON’T SE SILENT” – Crimes against humanity, organized and moderated by Olga Sukha-Zavrotska, president of Save Ukraine in partnership with Olena Remon, president of the @Union of Ukrainians in France Eure-et-Loir, Irina Dovgan, president of SEMA-Ukraine with the participation of @Dariya Zymenko, illustrator and designer, in face-to-face at La Défense Paris, and @Olena Apchel, PhD in philosophy, director, scientist and soldier of the Ukrainian national army since the massive invasion of Ukraine by Russia, remotely from Ukraine. Their testimonies were accompanied by translations by Kateryna Zhuk, Oks Sem Bay, and Olga Sukha-Zavrotska.
The crimes committed in Bucha and Irpin are only part of the most visible crimes committed by the Russian army in the world.

To date, only 352 complaints of sexual violence have been officially filed in the deoccupied territories, even though the occupied territories represent 20% of Ukraine’s territory and are home to 5 million people of all ages.
Sexual violence does not only affect women, but also men, children, the elderly and captured soldiers. They find themselves in prisons and concentration camps, like @Isoliatsia in Donbass, where people are locked up, isolated, tortured, raped, humiliated,… These are crimes of genocide, mass destruction of the population Ukrainian on the occupied territories…
We DO NOT HAVE the RIGHT to remain INDIFFERENT, we MUST SPEAK about it out loud everywhere (during conferences, press conferences, discussion panels, etc.) by calling on political leaders and influential people to recognize this violence sexual assault as a systematic and destructive weapon of the Russian army applied as an instrument of genocide.
No peace negotiations should be made at the cost of leaving territories already occupied!!!!!
In addition, the conference was accompanied by a photo exhibition by Dariya Zymenko and Oleksandra Zbourovska, illustrating the consequences of war crimes committed by the Russian army in Ukraine.

Many thanks to Philippe Lecourtier and Oksana Pishko for the photos, as well as to Oks Sem Bay, RUTA for their support and active participation in the conference-testimony, in particular, that this subject is part of the conference series “Ukraine faces war” like Ambulance Mitraillée France, crime against humanity.
NP. This subject was already highlighted in June 2024 by Joanna Lasserre, For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours and Kalyna