Ukrainian women escaping from Mariupol were taunted by Russian soldiers who threatened to murder their partners and send them their heads in a box, it is claimed.
The sick taunts were directed at women who were fleeing the Azovstal steel works in the city on a UN and Red Cross mercy mission.
But they were halted at numerous checkpoints and made to strip while Russian armed forces members abused them verbally, one told news website Ukrainian Pravda.
