Zelensky denounces Russian concentration camps and deportations to Siberia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced that Russian invaders hold Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories in so-called “filtration camps”, from where they are sent to Siberia and russia’s far east. People who try to leave Mariupol are referred to these areas. Saturday’s attempted evacuation of civilians failed, according to Ukrainian authorities, because Russian troops prevented the process.
“Russia continues to support the activities of so-called filtration camps, including near Mariupol. Although the appropriate name is really different: they are concentration camps. Like those built also by the Nazis at the time,” Zelensky said Saturday night in his daily message, collected by the Ukrinform and Unian agencies on Sunday (24.04.2022).
The president added that “the Ukrainians in these camps – the survivors – are sent to occupied territory and to Russia. There have been cases of deportation of our citizens to the interior of Russia, to Siberia and even to Vladivostok,” he said. “They also deport children in the hope that they will forget where their home is, where they are from. And they are from Ukraine,” he stressed.
Invaders prevent evacuation
At the same time, Zelensky reported that new facts are being discovered about the crimes of the Russian invaders against the inhabitants of Mariupol and burial places of the murdered people are being established. “We are talking about tens of thousands of mariupol residents dead. The invaders’ conversations about how to hide the traces of their crimes are being recorded,” he said. In addition, satellite images show what appear to be mass graves dug in towns east and west of Mariupol.
Meanwhile, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, denounced that the evacuation of civilians scheduled for Saturday failed because the invaders dispersed the people who had gathered to leave the city on buses. “Once again they have prevented an evacuation,” he lashed out, denouncing that, instead, some people were forced into other vehicles, where they were transferred to Dokuchaievsk, a town occupied by Russia, 80 km north of Mariupol.

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