India, April 3 -- A Russian woman, Olga Bykovskaya, was sentenced to five years in prison for urging her husband, a Russian soldier, to rape Ukrainian women during the ongoing war, a report from Russian newspaper Pravda said.

The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv convicted the woman in absentia of violating the laws and customs of war.

Ukraine has been embroiled in a war with Russia since its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The ongoing conflict has, however, been constantly marked with death, destruction and several war crimes.

The newspaper, cited a Radio Liberty Project, and said that the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) had in April 2022 released the audio of a conversation between a Russian soldier and his wife, wherein...