Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, are being taken to Russian territory against their will by Russian forces, according to a statement Saturday from the Mariupol City Council.
“Last week, several thousand residents of Mariupol were taken to Russian territory. The occupiers illegally took people from the Livoberezhny district and from the shelter in the sports club building, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from the constant bombing,” the statement read.
Captured residents of Mariupol were taken to camps where Russian forces checked their phones and documents, the city council said, and then were redirected to remote Russian cities.
The statement quoted Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko as saying: “What the occupiers are doing today is familiar to the older generation, who saw the terrible events of World War II when the Nazis forcibly captured people.”
“It’s hard to imagine that in the 21st century people could be forcibly taken to another country,” he added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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