Mariupol mayor says that roughly 31,000 residents have been taken at gunpoint to Russian 'filtration camps' in eastern Ukraine.
Mayor Vadym Boychenko said in a Telegram post Friday that he had"verified" that Ukrainians from the southern port city were being taken"at gunpoint" to a camp in Novoazovsk – a Ukrainian border town 35 miles from Mariupol and just 9 miles from the Russian border.
Just days before the February invasion, the Russian State Duma passed a bill officially recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, which was then signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Filtration is very strict - fingerprints are taken, as well as biometrics. They force people to sign various documents," he described, according to a translation by a UkrainianU.S.
Boychenko said in late March that 90 percent of all residential buildings had been destroyed and thousands are without water, electricity or heat.
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