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Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Russian Whistleblower Says Female Medics Are Being Used as Sex Slaves in Ukraine - The Daily Beast

“When we went there, no one, of course, knew what was going on. And when we understood, there was no turning back.”

Russian troops in Ukraine have allegedly been coercing their own female medics into acting as sex slaves for high-ranking officers—and punishing them if they don’t submit to the twisted arrangement.

That’s according to a Russian service member who is back home recovering after she says she witnessed a string of horrors committed by her fellow troops.

In an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the woman, identified only as Margarita, says female medics assigned to her regiment were coerced into becoming “field wives” for platoon officers—a job that required them to cook and clean for the men, while also “pleasing” them sexually.

Margarita says the medics were shocked by what they found when they arrived in Ukraine. “When we went there, no one, of course, knew what was going on. And when we understood, there was no turning back,” she said

She said she refused to go along with the arrangement, but then learned commanders had been ordered to “severely punish” her for the refusal.

“For a month I just lived outside. When others spent the night in tents and houses, I slept on the ground, near the road, in a small forest… They wanted to break me so that I would agree to sleep with [the colonel],” she said.

According to her, another woman who had been coerced into serving as the “field wife” to a platoon officer had been left permanently...



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