Over 10,000 Ukrainians reportedly deported to Russia

Ukraine has alleged that Russia is running a filtration camp in the Donetsk region, where over 10,000 Ukrainians have been put up. More than 700,000 civilians were reportedly deported to Russia from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova, raised the allegations. More than 700,000 of our citizens have been deported to Russia, according to their estimates, more than 130,000 children are being deported, Denisova told Radio Svoboda, a Russian wing of Radio Free Europe.

She added that more than 20,000 people are deported every day to Russia, and Ukrainians are in 35 regions of the Russian Federation. Denisova said that this fact was confirmed by the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatiana Moskalkova.

There is a filtration camp in the Donetsk region, where more than 10,000 of our citizens are staying. These are filtration camps in which they force our citizens to cooperate. Learn about their support for Ukraine or Russia. They will find out if there are acquaintances of law enforcement officers, and then they will be arrested and tortured, and possibly destroyed in this way, Denisova said.

The residents of Donetsk and Luhansk are being deported in February, according to her. Four filtration camps are being operated in the Penza region of Russia. She claimed that such acts were a violation of the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Rights.

Denisova said that the people of the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk should be taken to a third country so that they are not tortured. These filtration camps are reportedly military tents where Ukrainians are photographed, fingerprinted and forced to turn over their cellphone, password, and identity document. A satellite image by the U.S. - based Maxar Technologies last week gave the first glimpse of a camp in the Russian-controlled village of Bezimenne. Many Ukrainians have also shared harrowing accounts of being taken from their homes and dropped off in a foreign Russian community.

A resident said Russian troops stormed into their bomb shelter and ordered all the women and children to get out. They were given no choice. They were also interrogated about whether they had any relatives or friends serving in the Ukrainian army.