Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
They reported on a camp for Mariupol residents forcibly deported from Ukraine in the Penza region.
It is a closed institution with several buildings, surrounded by a fence and guarded, there is a checkpoint at the entrance. The freedom of movement of our citizens is limited - it is forbidden to leave the camp.
There are now more than 400 people, 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.
Our citizens are in a very difficult, severe and depressed state. They do not know about their future, in which Russian region they will be send to. They are not provided with any information.
People have been in the camp for several weeks. They don't have necessary clothes, shoes or 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 and children from what administration give.
Representatives of Sberbank came to the camp, collected our citizens data for the lists for future card account holders, and said that they were transferring 10,000 rubles each, but this did not happen.
Russian activists visited our citizens - they told us about the basics of life and the impossibility of contacting relatives or go back to Ukraine in any way.
The russians said the camp also included foreign students from Turkmenistan who hid in bomb shelters under a student dormitory in Mariupol without food, water, heat and light, and then arrived alone in the occupied Donetsk region, where they were forcibly deported to Russia. They can leave the camp, unlike Ukrainians. Ukrainians must remain under constant surveillance.
Russian activists are currently raising funds, food and clothing to help forcibly deported Ukrainian citizens.
They said that there are three more such camps in the Penza region, to which residents of the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions had been deported in February before the war. We reported that about 90,000 people were forcibly deported during that period.
According to activists, Ukrainians are forcibly relocated to various regions of the Russian Federation, even to Khabarovsk.
Forced deportation and our citizens' and violations fundamental rights to decent conditions, freedom of movement, and information are gross violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
I appeal 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.