From texting to rape. How Russian soldiers start relationships with teenagers in the front-line zone
Such connections arise both because of money and “for love” During the three years of war, the territories of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine occupied by Russia have turned into a zone that the Russian military itself calls the “wild west.” They behave accordingly there. For example, they actively meet Ukrainian teenage girls, start relationships with them, and sometimes even pay them for sex. At least one such contact, as Vorstka found out, could have ended in the rape of two schoolgirls.