Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen

Doesn't make it any better but rape was always a part of pretty much any war in human history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence

I think it's just that we hear a lot more about individual cases in the social media age, but correct me if i'm wrong...

Russia

Russia has always used state sponsored terror tactics and humanities violations. Just go read up on the way they treated people in their way to Berlin in WW2. It's horrifying. Raping children to death in front of their families is just standard operating procedure for the Russian army and that never stopped being true.

Now, they've used another time honored Russian strategy. They emptied the prisons/gulags to flesh out their front line. Which just feeds into the depravity of the troops who are well known for this kind of behavior already.

It's normal for war situations. The kind of people who become soldiers are almost always open for raping other people when given the chance. If you read about other wars, rape is always very common.

They are programmed into believing that the other country is evil, so that justifies their actions in their own minds.

Soldiers are lost souls.

A traumatized dog is a dangerous dog and has to be put down. I'm glad to see that the Ukraine army is doing as such.

Once the war is over, every Russian man that took part in it must be neutralised, it's the only way. Rapists, and those that allow such atrocities, do not deserve to live and must die for the good of others.

I also find that odd. It makes it almost seem as if raping elderly women is something that requires extra mention. So that nobody assumes that we are talking about the "normal", "understandable" rape of younger women. It's seriously fucked up.