\u0027It is hard to imagine that in the 21st century people can be forcibly taken to another country\u0027
Russian authorities said the trainload of more than 480 Ukrainians were being rescued and state media broadcast clips of them thanking Russian forces for their liberation.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, an official, said: “The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing their Ukrainian documents.” Disoriented women in warm coats and hats drank tea as they were quizzed about their ordeal. They said they were desperate to get out of Mariupol but made no mention of whether they wanted to leave for another part of Ukraine, or Russia.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, told Ukrainian TV those evacuated to Russia were taken to “filtration camps where the occupying forces were checking people’s phones and documents”. “Our citizens were given documents that oblige them to stay in a particular town, meaning they have no right to leave it for at least two years and they have to seek employment there,” she told Ukraine’s Channel 24.
Officials have recorded more than 2,500 deaths, but estimate the true toll could be nearer 20,000 because so many bodies lie unburied and uncounted in the city’s ruins.Article content
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