The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova was informed about the forcibly deported Ukrainians – residents of Mariupol in the Penza region of Russia,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 10 , April , 2022 | War News .
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Today I had a conversation with Russian citizens who support Ukraine. They reported on a camp for Mariupol residents forcibly deported from Ukraine in the Penza region, “Denisova wrote in her Telegram channel.
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According to the ombudsman, it is a closed institution with several buildings, surrounded by a fence and guarded, at the entrance checkpoint. The freedom of movement of our citizens is limited – it is forbidden to leave the camp.
According to the commissioner, there are currently more than 400 Ukrainian citizens there, mostly women and 147 children of all ages, including infants. A party of forcibly deported people, approximately 150 people, is expected in the near future.
Ukrainian citizens are in a very difficult and depressed state. They do not know their fate, in which region of Russia and when they will be taken, Denisova said. They are not provided with any information.
It is reported that people have been living in the camp for several weeks. They do not have the necessary clothes, shoes, even underwear. In fact, they were taken from the basements in what they were – in winter clothes. There is a catastrophic lack of baby food and personal hygiene items. Women cook for themselves from what they publish.
According to information received by Denisova, representatives of Sberbank came to the camp to collect lists for card accounts, saying that they would transfer 10,000 rubles each, but this did not happen.
“Russian activists visited our citizens – they told about the lack of basic necessities of life and the impossibility of any contact with relatives or return to Ukraine. The Russians said that the camp also has foreign students from Turkmenistan who were hiding in a bomb shelter under the student dormitory in Mariupol without food, water, heat and light, and then alone reached the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, where they were forcibly taken to Russia. Unlike Ukrainians, they are allowed to leave the camp. Ours must remain under constant surveillance. ” , – Denisova writes.
She noted that Russian activists are currently raising funds, food and clothing to help forcibly deported Ukrainian citizens.
They said that there were three other similar camps in the Penza region, to which residents of the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts had been deported in February before the war. , Ukrainians are forcibly relocated to different regions of Russia, including Khabarovsk, “the ombudsman said.
She appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross to immediately provide humanitarian assistance to the citizens of Ukraine who were forcibly deported and placed in concentration camps in Russia and to facilitate their return to Ukraine as soon as possible.
Source: Ukrgate
