SexViolHist Bib: Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Russo-Ukrainian War

»The Russo-Ukrainian War is an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country.« -- More information: Wikipedia

War in Donbass (2014- )

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The war in Donbas, or Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them. The war continued until subsumed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | II. Geographical Index: European History: Russian History, Ukrainian History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

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I. Author Index

[Info] Tzivaras, Ioannis P. »Sexual Violence in War-Torn Ukraine: A Challenge for International Criminal Justice.« The Use of Force against Ukraine and International Law. Edited by Sergey Sayapin et al. The Hague 2018: 409-424.

II. Speaker Index

Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022- )

I n f o r m a t i o n

»On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II. It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | II. Geographical Index: European History: Russian History, Ukrainian History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Ablamskyi. Serhii, et al. »A Comparative Study of Wartime Rapes: The Experience of Bosna and Herzegovina and Ukraine.« Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 117 (2024): 136-162.

[Info] Busol, Kateryna. »When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine.« Journal of Genocide Research 25 (2023): 279-314.

[Info] Busol, Kateryna. »When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine.« The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide. Edited by Diana Dumitru et al. London 2025.

[Info] Centerskog, Hanna. GBV and CRSV In the War Against Ukraine: "The battle is both armed and on women's bodies, as it always is" (Interview, Förberg, 2023). Independent Thesis, Uppsala Universitet, 2023.

[Info] Gray, Gavan P. »The Politicisation of Sexual Violence in Ukraine: The Impact of Partisan Representation on Effective Responses.« The Hestia Review 2 (2024): 23-35.

[Info] Hoener, Katherine J. Russian War Crimes against Ukraine. Honors Thesis, University of Dayton, 2024.

[Info] Monastyrova, Yelyzaveta. »Human Trafficking and International Armed Conflict: Applying the Trafficking Lens to Sexual Violence, Forced Labour and Deportation in the Russian-Occupied Territories of Ukraine.« Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement & Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 5 (2024): 211-243.

[Info] Naddeo. Giovanna. »Violenza sessuale come “arma di guerra” e lotta all’impunità nell’attuale conflitto in Ucraina.« DPCE online No. 1 (2024): 387-401.

[Info] Solvang, Tomine B. Fra synliggjøring til rettsliggjøring: En kvalitativ medieanalyse av norske og britiske avisers fremstilling av seksuell vold under Bosniakrigen mellom 1992-1995 og Ukrainakrigen i 2022. Masteroppgave, Universitetet i Oslo, 2023.

II. Speaker Index