Forced civilian deportations from Mariupol to Russia are "disturbing" and "unconscionable" if true, the US has said, after Ukrainian officials accused Moscow of transporting thousands of people against their will out of the devastated port city.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, said she could • not yet confirm the allegations, made on Saturday by Mariupol city council and repeated in detail yesterday by Ukraine's human rights spokesperson, Lyudmyla Denisova. “I've only heard it. I can't confirm it," she told CNN. “But I can say it is disturbing. It is unconscionable for Russia to force Ukrainian citizens into Russia and put them in what will basically be concentration and prisoner camps."
As the UN said 10 million people - about a quarter of Ukraine's prewar population -had been displaced and Ukrainian authorities accused Moscow of bombing an art school in Mariupol where more than 400 people had taken shelter, Denisova said Russian troops had “kidnapped” residents and taken them to Russia.
"Several thousand Mariupol residents have been deported to Russia," she said on Telegram. After processing at “filtration camps”, some had been transported to the Russian city of Taganrog, about 60 miles from Mariupol, and from there sent by rail "to various economically depressed cities in Russia", she said.
Denisova said Ukrainian citizens had been “issued papers that require them to be in a certain city. They have no right to leave it for at least two years, with the obligation to work at the specified place of work. The fate of others remains unknown.” Russian news agencies have reported that hundreds of "refugees” have been taken by bus from Mariupolto Russia. Denisova said the "abductions and forced displacements” violated the
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