Residents of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol have been taken against their will to Russia by Russian troops, the city council alleged over the weekend.
The Ukrainians who were taken were sent to camps where Russian forces checked documents and phones before redirecting them to remote areas within Russia, the council’s statement continued.
"What the occupiers are doing today is familiar to the older generation, who saw the horrific events of World War II, when the Nazis forcibly captured people," Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko said in the statement."It is hard to imagine that in the 21st century people can be forcibly taken to another country.”
More recently, Russian forces bombed a Mariupol theater where “more than 1,000 people” were taking refuge, and a “majority stayed alive after bombing,” Iuliia Mendel, a Ukrainian journalist and former spokeswoman for President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Thursday. The shelter had written the word “children” in Russian in front of and behind the theater, but it was still targeted.
He also said that Ukrainians in Mariupol are afraid to leave the underground shelters, even to get essentials, as a result of the continued attacks. The city does not have gas, electricity, or water, while bodies are being left in the streets because people are afraid to retrieve them.
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