More than 45,000 Ukrainians illegally deported to Russia and Belarus

More than 45,000 Ukrainians were illegally deported to Russia and Belarus from the temporarily occupied territories, said Tetyana Lomakina, Humanitarian Corridor Coordinator from the Office of the President of Ukraine, Report informs, citing foreign media.

According to her, Ukrainians are forcibly deported from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. The abductions were also recorded during the occupation of some settlements in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.

According to the President’s Office, the occupiers intercept people while receiving humanitarian aid or when they are trying to evacuate. It is also known that Ukrainians were abducted directly from shelters, in particular in Mariupol.

People are first deported to the territories of Donetsk region, where they are placed in filtration camps, and then transported to Russia and Belarus.