Civilians in Mariupol have been forcibly taken to Russia by enemy forces, the city’s authorities have said.
“People who are being forcibly taken to Russia are being stripped of their Ukrainian passports and given a piece of paper that carries no legal weight and is not recognised by the entire civilised world,” the city council said.
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Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional administration, said that more than 1,000 residents had been deported to “filtration camps”.
“The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing (their) Ukrainian documents,” he said.
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One Ukrainian MP said that these people were being taken to “very distant parts of Russia” and “forced to sign papers (saying) that they will stay in that area for two or three years and they will work for free in those areas.”
Asked if this was slave labour, Inna Sovsun said: “It is, yes. It is.”
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