In Russia, at least 66 camps with deported Ukrainians are located in the investigation of the British publication of Inews, excerpts from which is the Israeli 9tv.co.il.
Journalists conducted an analysis of Russian local news reports and identified 66 camps with Ukrainians located in former Soviet sanatoriums and children’s camps. It is also known about the placement of Ukrainians at least in one center of “patriotic education” and even in the territory of the former dump of chemical weapons. Many of them are located in Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle and the Far East.
As the British edition found out, in 38 of these camps there are 6,250 people, in particular 621 children. In all 66 camps, about 10.8 thousand people may contain, including at least a thousand children. Moreover, more than a third of the camps are created for residents of Mariupol, journalists say.
Journalists of the British publication confidently report the existence of camps in the following regions: Kamchatka Peninsula – 10 people in the hostel of the Kamchatka Industrial College in Elizov; City Nakhodka, Primorsky Territory – 300 people, including 86 children. Local media wrote that in four neighboring cities 14 camps open up to 1350 people; Sakhalin – 20 people; Not far from the city of Ulyanovsk – the Patriotic Educational Center “Vanguard” (the number of Ukrainians is unknown); The village of Leonidovka near Penza (there is a former dump of chemical weapons) – 600 people; Murmansk region – 20 camps for Ukrainians, including the Northern Lights Hotel in Nickel and the Sanatorium “Lapland” in Murmashi (the number of deported is unknown); Belgorod (the number of deported is unknown); Ufa – at least one camp in a local university dormitory (the number of deported is unknown); Leningrad Region – 530 people in the Professor camp “Tsaritsyno Lake”.
“There is enough evidence that thousands of Ukrainians were taken to Russia under duress. When people are given a choice: to stay under the intensified shelling or to leave for the territory of the occupying power, this is regarded as forced movement by international humanitarian law. People who want to be evacuated to in Safe regions of Ukraine, instead, are sent to Russia – in some cases, to areas that are very remote from Ukrainian or European borders, ”said Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Raits Vosch Voska and Central Asia.
According to the British publication, it is not forbidden to leave the camps officially Ukrainian citizens, but “the remoteness of the areas of stay, the lack of money, telephones and documents puts those who want to leave the camp, almost an impossible task.”