Russia relocating its citizens from remote regions to occupied Ukrainian territories
Photo: Hanna Maliar/Facebook
The Russian Federation wants to change the ethnic composition of the population in territories it temporarily occupies.
Rubryka reports, citing the statement of Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Hanna Maliar, on the Telegram messaging app, that Russia began to transfer its citizens from the most remote regions of the country to the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories to achieve this goal.
"Russia carries out these activities most actively in the Luhansk region [in Ukraine's east]," said Maliar. "To this end, the Russian government has initiated large-scale resettlement of many people of various nationalities, mainly poor, from remote regions of the Russian Federation."
According to the deputy minister, the occupying administrations help immigrants from Russia, providing them with accommodation, employment, soft loans to purchase housing, and business development.
"At the same time, the Russian occupiers continue to deport residents of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, especially those suspected of pro-Ukrainian position, to Russia under various pretexts," Maliar adds.
As the minister notes, in this way, Russia is trying to destroy Ukrainian statehood and the national self-identity of the society in the temporarily occupied territories.
As was reported earlier, the Russian invaders want to send more than 26,000 abducted children from the occupied territories of Ukraine on an alleged "recreation."
