Forcible deportations of Ukrainians are a deliberate Russian policy on a large scale. This mirrors historical practices from both the Stalinist and Tsarist eras, designed to reshape entire societies as a means of exerting social and physical control.

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2,8 millions

millions Ukrainians have been deported or forced to flee to Russia and Belarus, with the aggressor blocking access to Ukraine-controlled territory. Their whereabouts are mainly unknown.

19500+

children identified as deported by the Ukrainian government. The actual number is much higher but impossible to determine due to limited access to occupied territories and no cooperation from Russia.

20000+

civilian hostages are unlawfully held in Russia and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. The exact number is unknown as Ukraine and international organizations have no access to these areas.

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Russia does not appear to reap any economic benefits from resettling tens of thousands of unwilling Ukrainians in Russia, suggesting that the purpose of such removals is both to damage Ukraine’s long-term economic recovery as it retakes its territory and, more importantly, to support Russia’s ethnic cleansing campaign, which is attempting to eradicate the Ukrainianethnicity and culture.

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“I'm seeing new reports about Russian forced transfers of people from #Kherson in occupied #Ukraine. Under international law, the forced transfer of the populationfrom occupied areas is a war crime. The 4th Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from forcibly transferring or displacing the population.”

European Media Director of the Human Rights Watch. ANDREW STROEHLEIN

“Russian authorities are deliberately separating Ukrainian children from their parents and abducting others from orphanages before putting them up for adoption inside Russia. Eyewitnesses and survivors of “filtration” operations, detentions, and forced deportations report frequent threats, harassment, and incidents of torture by Russian security forces.”

THE US DEPARTMENT OF STATE

“Ukrainian people are not being evacuated from Kherson to Russia. They are being deported from #Kherson to Russia.”

British Ambassador to Ukraine MELINDA SIMMONS

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