In Mariupol, the occupiers begin to massively export residents of the Left Bank District to the territory of Russia.
According to the City Council, today about 6,000 Mariupol residents are known to have been forcedly evicted. In total, about 15 thousand residents fell under illegal deportation.
The Russian military, in an ultimatum form, force people to get on buses, take away their passports and other Ukrainian identity documents.
The deported are first taken to the so-called filtration camps, from where they are then distributed to remote cities of Russia.
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– Despite the fact that the Russian side regularly claims the possible evacuation of people to the territory controlled by Ukraine, this is not the case. Over the past 20 days, the occupants have been blocking the evacuation convoy and not allowing people to be safely rescued, the Mariupol City Council notes.
Thus, the buses that left Zaporozhye for Berdyansk to evacuate Mariupol residents are blocked.
– Obviously, this is done only to prevent people from returning to the territory controlled by Ukraine. Despite the fact that this is exactly what the residents of the Ukrainian city want, the City Council adds.
According to the mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, Ukraine experienced blockade of cities, targeted killings and forced removal of people during World War II war.
– Unfortunately, history repeats itself. Only now instead of the Nazis – rashists. We are forming a base of deported Mariupol residents and will work on their return to Ukraine,” the mayor of Mariupol said.
Full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for 29 days already.
About the situation can be followed on an interactive map of hostilities in Ukraine.
For more information about the war in Ukraine – read the news online in the ICTV Facts material.
