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Friday, March 25, 2022
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Friday, March 25, 2022
Moscow accused of forcibly removing civilians to Russia
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A picture taken on March 23, 2022 shows the damage at a school which has been destroyed in a Russian air bomb in Kharkiv. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
Ukraine is accusing Moscow of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia to pressure Kyiv to give up.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, says 402,000 people, including 84,000 children, have been taken against their will into Russia, where some may be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to surrender.
The Kremlin has given nearly identical numbers for those who have been relocated, but says they wanted to go to Russia. Ukraine’s rebel-controlled eastern regions are predominantly Russian-speaking, and many people there have supported close ties to Moscow.
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