Almost two million people, including hundreds of thousands – Denník N

Nearly two million people, including hundreds of thousands of children, have been forcibly deported by Russia from Ukraine since the Kremlin launched a large-scale military offensive in the country. Ukrainian President Zelensky announced. “Just imagine that number – two million people. So many of them have already been deported to Russia,” said Zelensky in a video speech at an international conference in Seoul. He added that in the so-called Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, including young women, are detained in filter camps on the territories temporarily occupied by Russia. “I’m sure you all know what they’re exposed to there,” he added. “No one will be able to name the exact numbers at the moment – all these deported people are deprived of the ability to communicate, their identity cards are taken away, they are intimidated and transported to remote areas of Russia to make it as difficult as possible for them to return to their homeland,” Zelenskyy said. US Secretary of State Blinken accused Russia of forcibly deporting 1.6 million Ukrainians to its territory. According to him, Moscow wants to depopulate some areas of Ukraine with this deliberate illegal “filtering” operation. Blinken claims that people from the occupied areas in the south and east of Ukraine are being moved far into the interior of the Russian Federation. Among the deported Ukrainians are 260,000 children, some of whom were forcibly taken from their parents and will be adopted in Russia, added the head of American diplomacy. (guardian)