War in Ukraine LIVE: Dmitry Medvedev wants to see the Ukrainians “disappear”… – 20 Minutes

11:09 a.m .: Some Ukrainian families have “no other choice but to go to Russia” “We had no right to choose”: Ukrainians having left Mariupol, a strategic port taken by the Russians after weeks of siege, told AFP how they were forced to go to Russia rather than to another region of Ukraine, a policy that kyiv does not hesitate to compare to “deportations”. Tetiana, decided to leave the city to “save her daughter” after the death of her father, thus learned that departures were only possible towards Russia, when she went to an information point whose officials were appointed by the pro-Russians. “We were in shock, we didn’t want to go to Russia,” she says by telephone from Riga, Latvia, where she is now a refugee with her family. “How do you go to a country that wants to kill you? Like her, Svitlana and her family were transported to Novoazovsk after being forcibly removed and then interrogated in a “filtration” camp. Smartphones examined, links with the Ukrainian army scrutinized, patriotic tattoos prohibited, the conditions for leaving the gymnasium where the refugees are piled up are drastic. More than a million Ukrainians have been “illegally transferred” to Russia according to kyiv. A figure confirmed by Moscow, which however ensures that it simply wants to “evacuate” civilians from “dangerous areas”.