Mariupol Women Report Russians Taking Ukrainians to ‘Filtration Camp’ –

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops forcibly brought people from Mariupol to Russia after they were interrogated in so -called filter camps, Ukrainian women reported.

“People need to know the truth about the migration of Ukrainians to Russia, a country we occupy,” he and his family have been hiding in the suburbs of Mariupol since early March. Told the Guardian.

The reports are in line with what the Mariupol city council says the Russians kidnapped 20,000 Mariupol residents, according to the English translation of a post on March 29. Sagrebulo Telegram Channel.

Russian troops evacuated Ukrainians, including patients and staff, from at least two maternity hospitals in Mariupol, through Russian -controlled territories in eastern Ukraine, NPR reported. Reported.

The woman told the Guardian that she was in a group of about 200-300 people brought by bus to Novoazovsk, Ukraine.

It was then that they realized they had arrived at “Filter Camp”, a series of military tents run by the Russian military, where they were threatened with interrogation and confiscation of personal belongings before eventually being transferred to Russia.

The woman said she took photos and fingerprints and asked about her potential links to the Ukrainian army and her views on the war before being sent to the city of Rostov in Russia. Others said they should be given phones and passwords, which agents used to access phone contacts and register in a database. The Washington Post.

The woman left the group after telling the soldiers that she had family there and has since left for the EU.

“Such information is a lie,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

President Joe Biden has said Putin is a “war criminal” and must appear in court, promising additional punishment for the documented atrocities in Bucha.

Moscow said In March, it had rescued 420,000 people from “dangerous regions of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” and evacuated to Russia.

U.S. Intelligence warned Prior to the invasion that Russia may have used the practice of illegal detention in the past.

“These actions, which in Russia’s previous operations have included targeted killings, enforced kidnapping / disappearance, unfair arrest and use of torture, are likely aimed at those opposed to the actions of Russia, “wrote Batcheba Crocker, the US ambassador. United States to the United Nations. Letter to the UN

The term “filter fields” appeared in the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Soviet citizens living outside the country and then trying to return – even those forcibly brought to Germany as war criminals – were considered “suspects”. Before being readmitted or deported to the Soviet Union, they had to be interrogated in camps and stations. According to Nick Baron, professor of British history.

In February 2000, Human Rights Watch published the A. Report Describing in detail the extreme violence and rape perpetrated by Russian forces in the Chechen filter camp during the first months of Putin’s rule following the 1999 attacks on Chechen rebels. The aggression offset Russia’s earlier defeat, which forced Russia to withdraw its forces from the region and sign an agreement in 1996 that gave Chechnya, a Muslim republic, great autonomy. According to NPR.

Russia won this time, with Putin celebrating the victory in March 2000.

The ongoing war in Ukraine has alarmed those who have followed in Chechnya.

“There are some pretty disturbing parallels,” said Thomas de Waal, a reporter who covered the area in the 1990s. NPR said. “Using heavy artillery, there was no indiscriminate attack on the city center. “They remind us of some of the frightening memories of those who narrated the Chechen war in the 1990s.”

The southern port city of Mariupol, where the people transferred to the filter camps came from, is rife with Russian brutality and continues to undergo bombing.

More than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the war began.