Russia accused of using force labor of captured Ukrainians
Mariupol’s advisor to the mayor said Thursday that the filtration camps set up by Russian forces outside the southern port city have become "ghettos" where men face torture and forced labor.
Petro Andryushchenko said three filtration camps have been established east of Mariupol in the village of Bezymiane – roughly 20 miles from the Russian border – which are believed to be housing 2,000 men who will be used in Russia's Victory Day parade on May 9.
The official said one video leaked from a camp in the Novoazovsk district shows that an old school building is being used to forcibly detain Ukrainian men taken from Guglino, Myrnyi and Volonterivka districts.
The men have reportedly been denied medical assistance or adequate care and at least one case of tuberculosis has been confirmed.
Russian soldiers reportedly turned the school gym into an isolation ward "where a large number of people were locked up without medical care."
"Conditions of detention are terrible - people are forced to sleep on the floor in the corridors," he said. At least one man has reportedly died after being denied medical care, though it is unclear what he died from.
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Several men reportedly attempted to escape after they saw U.N. and Red Cross evacuation buses, but they were captured and beaten.
All detained men, including the sick and those with disabilities, are required to do hard labor.
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While the Russians claimed to be fighting Nazis in Ukraine they are in fact, acting like Nazis in their treatment of Ukraine citizens. The number of Russian war crimes continues to mount with no end in sight.
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