Thread by @OstapYarysh

—Go, rape Ukrainian women, OK? But don't tell me anything!
—Can I?
—Yes, I let you. But use condoms!

Remember this intercepted call between the RUS soldier and his wife? @cxemu and @SvobodaRadio reporters managed to identify them. Meet Roman Bykovsky and Olga Bykovska. Thread🧵

Roman and Olga are from Oryol oblast in Russia, but around 2018 they moved to Feodosia in occupied Crimea. During the same phone call, Roman was fighting in the invaded Kherson region in Ukraine. Apparently, later he was wounded and now is being treated in a hospital.

How did journalists manage to identify the couple? Reporters claim they learned Roman's and Olga's phone numbers from sources in the Ukrainian law enforcement. The same numbers were linked to two accounts on the Russian social network VKontakte.

Later, the @SvobodaRadio reporter called those numbers. The man confirmed his name was Roman and said he was in a hospital, and the woman confirmed she had a husband, Roman, who had been wounded. The voices on the call match the voices from the intercepted conversation.

However, Roman said it wasn't his voice on the "go rape Ukrainian women" call. After the conversation with the reporter, Olga deleted her account on VK and stopped answering phone calls. Roman never answered as well.

Find more details (in Ukrainian) below. The
@cxemu team said they were considering adding English subtitles to their video investigation on YouTube as well. radiosvoboda.org/a/skhemy-zgval…

The video by @ValeriaEgoshyna (one of the authors of the investigation) is here. It's in Ukrainian, but there's a lot of visual and audio material - photos, calls, etc. You may find it interesting too.

‼️ For all of you who asked, the video investigation is available with English subtitles on YouTube. Thanks @ValeriaEgoshyna and @cxemu for brilliant work. Watch more here; it's 7 mins and definitely worth it. The truth must be known 👇

More in English: rferl.org/a/ukraine-rape…