Russia’s Vladimir Putin has been accused of yet another war crime after Ukrainian officials claimed Russian soldiers are kidnapping civilians.
According to the city council of Mariupol, a heavily besieged port city that has been suffering from constant Russian bombing for the last few weeks, Putin’s troops are abducting innocent civilians and forcefully taking them to Russia.
As the officials insist, “several thousand” Ukrainians have already been taken out of the country after having their documents ripped apart and their phones confiscated.
Following their alleged processing at the so-called “filtration camps,” the Ukrainian civilians were taken to “remote cities” in Russia where they will reportedly be forced to work for free.
“What the occupiers are doing today is familiar to the older generation, who saw the horrific events of World War II, when the Nazis forcibly captured people. It is hard to imagine that in the 21st century people can be forcibly taken to another country,” Mariupol mayor Vadym Boichenko said.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has since slammed the alleged deportations carried out by Russian troops and said such actions are “unacceptable” and “unconscionable.”
“To force people from Ukraine to go into Russia is absolutely unacceptable; it’s unconscionable. It’s something we need to confirm, but I don’t put it past the Russians to take such a horrific action,” the ambassador said.
“Certainly, that would be another escalation, but not beyond the realm of possibility given how horrible the Russians have tried to put pressure on the Ukrainian people.
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