The filter camps along the Mangush-Nikolske-Yalta line are aimed at preparing Ukrainians for deportation to Russia, according to Petro Andriuschenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. The report coincides with warnings from the Mariupol City Council and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense warning that the Russians are using checkpoints in the Donetsk region from Bezimenne to Dokuchaevsk, forcing citizens to leave documents en masse and their. The Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, is working to expose Ukrainians’ submissions to the filter camps, whether they have cooperated with law enforcement or Joint Operations Forces, the directorate said. Some reports indicate that the Russians downloaded data from Ukrainian phones and took their fingerprints at the filter camps before sending them to Russia. U.S. officials have warned in advance of a Russian-led invasion this year that Russia could round up Ukrainians, send them to camps and seek to eliminate them as a way to eliminate the resistance. And, as US intelligence on Russia’s intentions in Ukraine has become relevant in the past, their predictions seem to have been accurate here as well. More than 45,000 have been deported to Russia since the war began, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk. Russia has long used filtering camps during the war, say human rights watchdogs. Russians tortured, beat, and raped Chechen citizens in filter camps in Chechnya in 2000, after and during the wars in Chechnya, according to the Observatory for Human Rights and Witnesses. In those cases, those who escaped said that the Russians were using filter camps as a way to try to “disappear” people. The Biden government has criticized the camps. “Every day we see more and more of Russia’s lack of respect for human rights,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said earlier this month. I do not need to specify what these so-called “filter camps” are. “It’s creepy and we can not look away.” And now, as the Russian government has denied the allegations against Chechnya and the filter camps, the Kremlin has once again denied allegations that the Ukrainians were forced into camps. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov called the reports “lies.” While Russian forces are reportedly gathering civilians in Mariupol for the camps, the Ukrainians continue to try to defeat the Russian forces in Mariupol. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that the Ukrainians were still holding parts of the city while Russian forces were carrying out the attack. But the situation in Mariupol seems increasingly bleak. After weeks of Russian forces clearing the city of land, air and sea, the situation is dire for those who remain. At the beginning of the invasion, Russian forces hit a maternity hospital, sending women and babies to run to save their lives. In recent days, Russian forces have chased a theater, surrounded the city and blocked humanitarian aid, reducing food and basic supplies. And this weekend, Russian forces urged the Ukrainians to surrender. If Mariupol fell, it would be the first major city to fall to the Russians. Only a small group of soldiers seem to remain, fighting in Azovstal, an iron and steel factory that the Russians said they had shut down. The city of Mariupol shared a video on its Telegram account on Monday that appeared to show Russians bombing Azovstal. Women and children are gathering in bomb shelters, Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boichenko said on Monday. But for now, the Ukrainians are not backing down. “Mariupol. “Unbreakable and invincible,” Andriuschenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, told the Telegram on Monday. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmyhal echoed Andriuschenko. “The city has not fallen yet,” Shmyhal told ABC News. But already, Russian forces are issuing entry cards to people who remain in the besieged Mariupol, which they will have to bring to take to the streets, Andriuschenko said. “Hundreds of citizens have to stand in line to get a pass, without which next week it will be impossible not only to move around the city’s neighborhoods, but also to be on the streets,” he said, warning that men could be filtered. In the coming days, as Russia works to occupy Mariupol permanently, Russia may resort to the use of “riot control agents”, such as tear gas mixed with chemical agents, which could weaken the Ukrainians, the White House warned in a statement. last week. While Russian forces have faced many setbacks recently – they failed to capture Kyiv and a large warship sank last week – Russian forces are already taking the lead with a new offensive in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s senior security official. Danilov. “This morning, the occupiers tried to penetrate our defenses almost across the front line in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions,” Danilov said on Monday.
