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An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol warned on Saturday that Russian troops were preparing to close the city by April 18th and would “filter” all men for forced labor, labor or “isolation”.
“The occupiers announced that on Monday they will not only permanently close all entrances and exits in the city to all, but will impose a traffic ban in all neighborhoods for one week. During this time, 100% of the remaining male population in the city will be “filtered”, said Petro Andryushchenko in a publication in the Telegram, translated by the Ukrainian edition of “Ukrainian Truth”.
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“Some people will be mobilized in the Russian occupation corps, some will be forcibly deployed to clear the rubble, and those classified as unreliable will be isolated,” he added, noting that the deportees will be taken to a camp in Новоазовск.
Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko said last week that approximately 31,000 residents were forcibly deported and sent to Russian “filtration camps” in Novoazovsk, a Ukrainian border town 35 miles from Mariupol and just 9 miles from the Russian border.
Novoazovsk is located in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a breakaway region on Ukraine’s easternmost front that has been backed by Russian forces and has been involved in an armed conflict with the Ukrainian army since 2014.
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Defense officials have warned that Russia plans to use all its available forces in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine after failing to capture the capital Kyiv after more than months of fighting.
All Russian ground forces are believed to be in eastern Ukraine, and Andryushchenko said Russian troops have already begun a “filtering process” in the region.
The councilor in Mariupol said the men were taken to filter camps, where they were interrogated, their mobile devices searched and their bodies examined.
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Andryushchenko reportedly claims that five to 10 percent of men do not “pass” the filtering process and then are sent to other areas in the Donetsk region, but it is not known what happens to these people afterwards.
Ukrainian authorities have warned that residents of eastern Ukraine have also been forcibly deported to Russia.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova, who is investigating allegations of human rights abuses, said she had received reports from concerned Russians that about 400 Ukrainians were being held in a fenced camp near the city of Penza, according to the UK-based news agency i News.
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The camp, which is believed to house more than 145 children, is a former Russian military base 600 miles from the Ukrainian border and was reportedly used as an ammunition depot for Soviet chemical bombs after World War II.
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