Ukraine convicts in absentia wife of Russian occupier who called on him to rape "Ukrainian women"
The Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison a Russian citizen, Olga Bykovska, who called on her husband, Russian occupier Roman Bykovsky, who participated in the war against Ukraine, to rape Ukrainian women.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to Radio Liberty.
Earlier, "Schemes" identified Olga Bykovskaya and her husband, a soldier, Roman Bykovsky, whose conversation was intercepted and published by Ukrainian law enforcement.
On the tapes, the Russian woman said: "You go ahead and rape Ukrainian women and don't say anything to me."
The verdict states that Olga Bykovska (née Pinyasova) must serve a 5-year prison sentence from the moment of her arrest.
Bykovska is currently on the international wanted list. She also has to compensate the state for more than UAH 15 thousand in procedural costs, including a forensic linguistic semantic and textual examination and an examination of the sound recording of the Bykovsky voices.
Separately, the court reviewed the video version of the Schemes investigation and the conversations between journalists and the Bykovskys that formed the basis of the criminal proceedings.
The verdict will come into force after the deadline for filing an appeal.
