![]() Ukrainian officials say Russian troops are confiscating passports from Ukrainian citizens then moving them to “filtration camps” in Ukraine’s separatist-controlled east before sending them to distant, economically depressed areas in Russia.īoychenko said Monday that improvised prisons were organized for those who did not pass the “filtering,” while at least 33,000 people were taken to Russia or to separatist territory in Ukraine. Only those residents who have passed the Russian “filtration camps” are released from the city, Boychenko said. In Mariupol, about 120,000 civilians are in dire need of food, water, warmth and communications, the mayor said. “He’s still there,” her surviving son, Andriy, said. Galyna Feoktistova waited for hours in the cold and rain in hopes of identifying her 50-year-old son, who was shot and killed more than a month ago, but eventually she went home for some warmth. In Bucha on Monday, the work of exhuming bodies from a mass grave in a churchyard resumed. Ukrainian authorities accuse Russian forces of committing atrocities, including a massacre in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, airstrikes on hospitals and a missile attack that killed at least 57 people last week at a train station. With their offensive in many parts of the country thwarted, Russian forces have relied increasingly on bombarding cities - a strategy that has flattened many urban areas and killed thousands of people. More artillery is being deployed near the city of Donetsk, while ground combat units that withdrew from around the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas appear destined for refitting and resupplying before they position in Donbas, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal U.S. defense official said Monday that a long Russian convoy is now rolling toward the eastern city of Izyum with artillery, aviation and infantry support, apparently for the looming offensive. Russia has appointed a seasoned general to lead its renewed push in the eastern Donbas region.Ī senior U.S. officials pointed to new indications that Russia’s military is gearing up for a major offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, switching its focus after Russian forces failed in their initial drive to capture Kyiv. Rodrigo Abd/Associated PressĮlsewhere Monday, U.S. A man walked with a bicycle next to a truck that carries black bags with corpses of people killed during the war with Russia and exhumed from a mass grave for investigations in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv on Monday.
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