It is said that more than a million Ukrainians were deported to Russia during the Ukraine war.
The Pentagon also has information about deportations.
Moscow - During the Ukraine war there were repeated reports of deportations of Ukrainians to Russia.
Now the Pentagon has information about the kidnapping of Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian side said that over 1.19 million Ukrainians were deported to Russia.
Experts compared deportations by the Russian side with Stalinist methods.
War in Ukraine: US Department of Defense reports on deported Ukrainians
According to the US Department of Defense, it has indications that Ukrainians are being forcibly brought to Russia by Russian troops.
"I can't say how many camps there are or what they look like," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday.
“But we have indications that Ukrainians are being brought to Russia against their will.” He considers the behavior to be “unscrupulous”.
According to the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, Lyudmila Denisova, "more than 1.19 million of our citizens, including more than 200,000 children, have been deported to the Russian Federation" since the beginning of the war.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine War: Deportees from Mariupol
The Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has been under siege by the Russian army since the start of the escalating Ukraine conflict.
It is suspected that the southern Ukrainian city became the scene of numerous human rights crimes.
Among other things, mass graves with thousands of war victims were found outside of Mariupol.
The city was almost completely destroyed during the war.
According to the Russian army, the city is almost completely taken.
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Matilda Bogner has headed the commission that has been investigating the human rights situation in Ukraine since 2014.
According to Bogner, at least 204 people were abducted against their will, including 169 men, 34 women and one boy.
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A damaged building in Mariupol.
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Ukraine War: Is Putin Adopting Stalin Methods?
Jan Claas Behrends, Professor of Eastern European History at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, told
Focus Online
: “Putin is concerned with destroying the culture and identity of Ukrainians.
The behavior of its soldiers, including the murders and deportations, is genocidal.” According to the historian, Russian President Vladimir Putin is adopting Stalinist methods.
The Soviet dictator had already had mass deportations of foreign peoples carried out.
Political scientist Andreas Heinemann-Grüder from the International Center for Conflict Studies in Bonn gave
Focus Online
a similar analysis: "The paranoia that Stalin had because he saw everyone as a Nazi collaborator is now being revived." According to the expert, the deportees will be interrogated in camps in Russia.
Their cell phones are searched and their biographies are screened.
It is about making sure that they are not members of the Ukrainian secret service.
A few weeks ago, reports from volunteer helpers who had been captured by Russian soldiers and had been imprisoned for weeks were made public.
(LP/AFP)