Russia and its occupying army in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine runs 21 so-called “filtration” camps. There the invaders contain and interrogate Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians.
This is stated in a new report from Yale University with the support of the US State Department. It was made public on August 25.
The report includes commercial satellite imagery and information from open sources, which helps to accurately identify individual places, in particular, objects that previously served as schools, markets and ordinary prisons. Experts also identified probable graves in one of the prison complexes.
the Russians set up a “filtering system” in the occupied territories
The Humanities Research Laboratory at the Yale School of Public Health, which prepared the report, was launched in May to collect and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. Its executive director, Nathaniel Raymond, said research findings showed that the terrorist country and its forces had created a “filtering system” to sort people in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine.
Yale University researchers recently identified violations by individual and mass graves that arose back in April. This coincides with the story of a former prisoner who said that around that time the detainees were forced to dig graves.
The conditions are absolutely suitable for extreme abuse and in many cases, as we saw in Olenivka, we are seeing signs that we may still have a fire with five alarms,” Raymond emphasized.
He added, that it is not yet known how many civilians passed through or are still being held in Russian “filtration” camps.
Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of deporting hundreds of thousands of people from the occupied territories. However, the Kremlin, despite a lot of testimony and evidence, traditionally denies this. According to the infidels, they “offer humanitarian aid to those who want to leave.”
In addition, in July, the Russian embassy in Washington stated that the US accusation of detaining Ukrainians in the occupied territories is allegedly an attempt to incite “Russophobia” and slander the Russian armed forces.
The occupiers have 21 “filtration” camps
The report of the Yale University specialists was focused on Mariupol, occupied by Russians and militants in a quasi-republic in the Donbass. Back in April, when the invaders did not completely control the city, the mayor said that about 40 thousand civilians of the city were forcibly relocated to the territory controlled by the occupiers or taken to Russia.The report identified a system according to which the Russians deliver civilians to conflict zones, they are registered and interrogated before being released, kept in custody or taken to the territory of a terrorist country. In total, researchers have identified 21 such “filtration” camps.
Remarkably, in June, the US National Intelligence Council said it had identified 18 possible occupant filtering sites in Ukraine and western Russia. On August 25, the State Department once again urged the Kremlin to stop filtering and forced deportations, and to grant outside observers access to the colonies.
The United States and our partners will not be silent,” the State Department concluded in a statement.
