Russia’s occupation of Ukraine involves a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing to ensure that occupied Ukrainian territories cannot be reclaimed.
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This is what analysts at the Washington Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say in their latest report on February 10.
They believe that Russia’s occupation of Ukraine involves a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing to ensure that occupied Ukrainian territories cannot be reclaimed.
Russia’s occupation policy is designed to create an “irreversible multi-generational impact” and isolate Ukraine from the West. To achieve this, Russians are using a “strategy of forced depopulation and repopulation,” the report says.
Thus, the demographic picture of the occupied territories of Ukraine is changing.
ISW researcher Caroline Gird says Russia is using this tactic, which has already “worked successfully” in the case of Crimea and Donbass, which were seized back in 2014, as “Western leaders regularly ask whether Ukraine should even try to liberate Crimea and parts of Donbass.” .
Source: Racurs
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