Moscow Has Forcibly Taken More than 400,000 Ukrainians to Russia, Ukraine Says

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Russia is taking people’s passports and moving them to “filtration camps” in Ukraine’s separatist-controlled east before sending them to various distant, economically depressed areas in Russia.

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Moscow Has Forcibly Taken More than 400,000 Ukrainians to Russia, Ukraine Says
Ukrainian officials said that the Russians are taking people's passports and moving them to “filtration camps” in Ukraine’s east before sending them to various distant areas in Russia.
8:28 AM · Mar 25, 2022

https://time.com/6160765/ukrainians-taken-to-russia/

(KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine accused Moscow on Thursday of forcibly taking hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia, where some may be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to give up.

Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, said 402,000 people, including 84,000 children, had been taken to Russia.

The Kremlin gave nearly identical numbers for those who have been relocated, but said they wanted to go to Russia. Ukraine’s rebel-controlled eastern regions are predominantly Russian-speaking, and many people there have supported close ties to Moscow.

A month into the invasion, the two sides traded heavy blows in what has become a devastating war of attrition. Ukraine’s navy said it sank a large Russian landing ship near the port city of Berdyansk that had been used to bring in armored vehicles. Russia claimed to have taken the eastern town of Izyum after fierce fighting.

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[maxsolomon]

1. Depopulating the areas it intends to annex.

The USSR exiled the Crimean Tartars to the Central Asian republics and replaced them with Russians. Some shit different century.

[crickets]

4. +1

[lagomorph777]

2. One more mess to clean up after Putin is crushed.

Fucking monster.

[crickets]

3. Hostages and human shields

https://democraticunderground.com/100216509486

Taking that many children has manifold purpose: to use them as shields, and to drench them in propaganda to turn them against their home country before they are returned, if ever. The bonus is to rob Ukraine of a substantial chunk of their future generations. It's vile.

[Tommy Carcetti]

5. "Great news! We just bombed your house to smithereens and now you get to live in Norilsk!"

"Have fun!"

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Sanctions must not end until they are returned home

The west must not cave to the push to remove sanctions if hostilities cease,

[Emrys]

7. I believe they call it ethnic cleansing. n/t

[Chainfire]

8. Hostages