Moscow has deported 500,000 people from Ukraine to Russia, denounced a prominent deputy of the kyiv Parliament, who asked the Red Cross to establish contact with the disappeared.
“Half a million Ukrainian citizens were deported from Ukraine to the Russian Federation without their agreement“, said Mykyta Poturayevhead of the humanitarian committee of the Ukrainian Parliament.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the figure given by Poturayevwho gave no details or supporting evidence.
“Unfortunately, for now there is no opportunity even (to establish) contact with these people“, he pointed Poturayev to the members of the European Parliament by videoconference.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions, which define the international legal norms on humanitarian treatment in conflicts, prohibit the massive forced transfer of civilians during a conflict to the territory of the occupying power, classifying them as a war crime.
Moscow it has denied intentionally targeting civilians since it invaded Ukraine on February 24, in what it calls a special military operation, and says it is offering humanitarian aid to those who want to leave.
On March 12, a Russian government resolution listed the whereabouts of 95,909 people across Russia who had left Ukraine, including the two breakaway regions that Moscow has declared as independent entities
A month later, the Russian military said it had rescued 138,014 civilians from Mariupolas fighting intensified in the besieged city.
Source: Gestion
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