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12:08 24 Mar 2022

Mariupol City Council says about 15,000 residents deported to Russia illegally

Residents of the Left Bank district of Mariupol are deported en masse to Russia

Rubryka reports, referring to the Mariupol City Council.

According to the City Council, about 15,000 Mariupol residents were deported illegally.

"This is about half of all residents who are still in the Left Bank district. It is known that the occupiers in the ultimatum form force people exhausted by the war to get on buses.

There is also information that the Russian occupiers are confiscating people's passports and other Ukrainian id documents," the statement said.

Initially, deported people are taken to so-called filtration camps.

Then they are distributed in various remote cities of Russia.

"Today it is known that about 6,000 Mariupol residents have already been forcibly taken to the occupier's territory," the City Council said.

The Russian side regularly announces the possible evacuation of people to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

But for the past 20 days, the occupiers have been constantly blocking the evacuation column and preventing the safe rescue of people.

"What the Russian occupiers are doing is inexplicable. First, they're blockading a peaceful city, purposefully start killing people, and then forcibly deport them to their territory.

Ukraine experienced this only during the Second World War. Unfortunately, history repeats itself. Only now instead of Nazis, there are Russian fascists.

We are currently forming a base of deported Mariupol residents and will work on their return to Ukraine," said Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko.

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