Ukraine’s Representative to UN: 500,000 Ukrainians deported to Russia and banned from leaving

Anastasiia Kalatur – Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 06:15

Over 500,000 Ukrainians, including 121,000 children, have been forcibly deported to the Russian Federation, where they are given documents which ban them from leaving Russia for 2 years.

Source: Serhii Kyslytsia, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, during a UN Security Council meeting, cited in Ukrinform

Details: Citizens of Ukraine are being deported to economically depressed regions of the Russian Federation, in particular the northern regions and the island of Sakhalin.

In addition, at least 20,000 Ukrainian citizens are being held in "screening" camps along the Manhush–Nikolske–Yalta line, and nearly 5-7,000 are being held in Bezimenne in the Donetsk region.