Russia deports Ukrainians who have not received Russian citizenship from the occupied territories

In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russia has created migration prisons, to which it sends Ukrainians who have not received Russian citizenship. Subsequently, citizens of Ukraine, whom the Kremlin considers to be foreigners, are deported. This was announced by the director of the Institute of Strategic Research and Security, founder of the “Eastern Human Rights Group”, Pavlo Lysyanskyi.

“People with Ukrainian passports who went to the temporarily occupied territories, and then want to return, then these people will simply be deported. There are about 3,000 such cases. This is what we know, most likely, there are more such cases,” he said.

Lysyanskyі drew attention to the fact that Russia paid 50,000 rubles each to Ukrainians who received passports of Russian citizens in the occupied territories.

“This money can be received only by a citizen of the Russian Federation, i.e. a passport holder from the temporarily occupied territory. No more than a million payments were made during the entire time. That is, all the talk that 90% of people in the temporarily occupied territory have passports is not true. Because we see that repression is intensifying, that people are being deported. All the facts indicate that, perhaps, no more than a million people received passports under duress in the temporarily occupied territory. And these are only those who have issued passports since 2019. I would like to remind you that the issuing of passports of the Russian Federation began back in the period of the Minsk agreements. That’s when, contrary to all laws, Russia started issuing these passports in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions,” the human rights activist explained.

He added that a minimal number of Ukrainians received Russian passports in the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

The director of the public organization “Institute of Strategic Research and Security”, the founder of the “Eastern Human Rights Group”, Pavlo Lysyanskyi, told how the Kremlin forces Ukrainians to obtain passports of citizens of the Russian Federation in the occupied territories.