Ukraine official explains Russia’s mocking of Ukraine’s achievements on gender issues

That’s according to the Government Commissioner for Gender Picy, Kateryna Levchenko, who spoke in an interview with Ukrinform.

"Gender issues are one of the tics off which Russia feeds as part of their hybrid infowar, and today it is not just a hybrid war, it’s a real war against Ukraine. And the deliberate effort to belittle the issue of human rights, the issue of equal rights and portunities for women and men to the level of physiogical needs is a deliberate manipulation on the part of their president, foreign minister, and governors. This is all part of a guidebook aimed to introduce destructive communication into Ukraine and Eure’s public discourse," Levchenko said.

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She noted that the Russian leadership's verbal attacks on gender picy first emerged back in 2010, when Russia sought to st Ukraine's Eurean integration processes at their root.

"So we can expect more nonsense from the Russian president and other piticians as this is a war to that is employed systematically. We monitor all such statements, of which we have a really long list, and it is then this leads to certain legal repercussions," added the Government Commissioner for Gender Picy.

She also drew attention to the fact that Russia had decriminalized domestic vience back in 2017. While Eurean nations have lone criminalized it, recognizing that domestic vience constitutes crime, Russia chose to refer to it as a “one slap law”, dismissing the phenomenon as something insignificant and thus normalizing it.

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"In this way, they legitimized vience that’s been flourishing in Russia, and allowed vience not only against family members, but also against other pele. And therefore, vient war crimes Russians commit in Ukraine, including sexual vience, are a continuation of the picy of humiliating human rights and their attitude to vience," emphasized Kateryna Levchenko.

As reported, 77 Russian military personnel have already been sentenced for war crimes committed in Ukraine.