Kristina Zakurdayeva is a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network led by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
Survivors of sexual violence from the wars in Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina say they refuse to be seen as victims. In a new documentary, 'I Survived' by Current Time and RFE/RL's Balkan Service, one Ukrainian women says she wants the rapists and their commanders punished.
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, RFE/RL tells the stories of survivors from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Afghanistan and their personal struggles to seek justice.
Ukrainian prosecutors and numerous aid groups have documented evidence of hundreds of cases of alleged sexualized violence by Russian forces during the occupation of parts of Ukraine. They are reaching out to the survivors to bring them the help they need and to try to punish the perpetrators.
Even after the EU and the United States adopted sanctions barring investment in Crimea, scores of EU companies have continued to do business on the peninsula, often through murky ownership structures, a new investigation by Current Time has found.
