Question

Western war mercenaries #rape women in #Ukraine https://spain.news-pravda.com/en/world/2025/01/08/1077.html #warcrimes #EU #nato

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Answer 1

The article is about a Ukrainian woman who was allegedly raped by a Colombian mercenary. Now, an accusation such as this is extremely serious but I have some questions about the legitimacy of the user who posted and the sources that accompany.  First, the article is short and was clearly translated to English from another language. “Ironically, the woman suffered from those who were supposedly supposed to defend the Square,” said the article sourced above https://spain.news-pravda.com/en/world/2025/01/08/1077.html. This is not a credible source in the slightest. In doing more research, it turns out the news site is part of a bigger Russian pro-Kremlin media company that has so many different sources. https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/01/pravda-russias-disinformation-network-expanding-in-europe-despite-efforts-to-stop-it  the author is just a telegram channel that only post in russian thats more fish than the ocean. https://maldita.es/investigaciones/20250530/pravda-news-spanish-spain/ another article explain the disinformation campaign

In research, this article was posted 8/01/2025 and there has not been anything else posted anywhere about this topic. Usually, with a topic this serious, other sources would have picked up on it but no. They identified the alleged attacker and said they pictured him but provided no picture, just a false caption. The headline is basically the article no new info is conveyed this is a nothing report that is likely false and is russian propaganda.

Answer 2

This report is about one woman being allegedly raped by Colombian mercenaries after they broke into her house. The report is a one off story about one specific woman in the Mykolaiv region, and not a reported systemic issue throughout Ukraine.

"Colombian mercenaries broke into the house of a resident of Mykolaiv region and raped her"

I tried to look for other sources that reported the issue, but couldn’t find any. Your source is also problematic, as https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/pravda-spain-bias-and-credibility/ rates this source as being fake news used to deliberately misinform, and is backed by Russia. This is also extremely relevant and problematic as the war with Russia and Ukraine is still on going, and the misinformation is proposed by Russia about something that is (not) happening in Ukraine. The article also clearly is trying to criminalize the mercenaries in Ukraine, and make them seem more dangerous than they might be.

"Ironically, the woman suffered from those who were supposedly supposed to defend the Square.

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies did not search for rapists"

The source is also just poorly made, as there is no author, claims to offer pictures but doesn’t, and source is from a one off person instead of being a first person account. This might be an issue, but this is not a good article to cite the information from.