A quarter of them are residents of Mariupol.
The Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine has already received more than 16,000 statements about missing Ukrainians. This was announced by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova in an interview with the Public.
“In the first place – the search for the missing. Then it was something bombed, destroyed. Other issues are humanitarian corridors and aid. But most are a search. We are already looking for more than 16,000 people, “Denisova said.
The ombudsman added that 2,000 statements concerned servicemen and the rest civilians. A quarter of them are from Mariupol.
Denisova also said that people report cases of abduction of Ukrainians by the occupiers.
“People were sitting in the basement of a bombed-out house – it was in early March, – orcs came, took them away, almost always without documents. Then they were brought to filtration camps in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, “said the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
According to her, those who manage to pass the “filtration”, the Russian military is taken to the territory of Russia. The occupiers do this in those areas where there are no Ukrainian checkpoints.
“They transport across borders where our checkpoints do not exist. First of all, this is the Rostov region. According to them, more than 700,000 people crossed the border there. Then there is the Belgorod region. They also export to Crimea, ”Denisova explained.
According to the ombudsman, those Ukrainians who left for Russia in their own cars crossed the border voluntarily. According to Russia, it is about 96 thousand cars. She noted that these people probably took the opportunity to get to Europe.
“But they went on, they just couldn't leave the occupied territories through Ukraine. And so, I think, they took the opportunity to go through Russia to the European Union. Because my fellow ombudsmen from other countries had appeals from citizens of Mariupol, Kharkiv and other cities of Ukraine, who left by their own vehicles, ”the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights said.
Earlier under Mariupol has discovered the third mass grave . It increased by 200 meters in a month.
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