Women and children taken to Russia en masse against their will from the temporarily occupied areas
The exact number of the displaced people is yet unknown
What happened. From the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions temporarily occupied by the enemy, women and children are forcibly taken out to the Russian Federation.
Source. Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova reports the incident on her Facebook page.
Details. Shortly after the rassist troops enter settlements, the so-called humanitarian corridors are organized for residents to be taken to the aggressor country. Women, children, and the elderly are subject to the search. Ukrainian documents and telephones are confiscated, and people are sent to the border regions of the Russian Federation. There they are placed in concentration camps with subsequent displacement to depressed areas of Russia for settlement. People are deprived of means of communication with relatives, often have no food and bare necessities. So far, there is no data on the number of displaced persons.
The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is leading a pre-trial investigation into the illegal deportation of 2,389 children to Russia from the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas. The russist media, with its everlasting propensity for distorting facts in exaggerating fashion of expansionist achievements, states as many as 206 000 resettlers from Donbas.
"We assume an actual number of the involuntarily displaced residents of Donetsk and Luhansk temporarily occupied territories to be up to thousands. Russist attempts to establish similar "humanitarian borders" leading to the occupier country were also observed in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kyiv regions. Fate of the forcibly deported people remains unknown," it says in the message.
Such deeds of the aggressor country are qualified as an abduction of people, a war crime, and a direct violation of Art.3 and Art.34 of The Geneva Convention for Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Art.9 of The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Art.5 of The European Convention on Human Rights.
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