Ukraine denounces a filtration camp on the Russian border with Estonia

MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The advisor to the Mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Petro Andriuschenko, has denounced that Russia has opened filtration camps for Ukrainians on its own territory, near the border with Estonia.

"The occupiers not only do not reduce the rate of deportation and filtration, but resort to new means of 'decolonization'. Now there are filtration camps for Ukrainians not only in the occupied territory of Ukraine," Andriuschenko denounced on his Telegram channel.

Thus, the official has revealed that the Russian authorities now identify Ukrainians who try to cross the border, despite the fact that they may have war refugee status.

Already in mid-April, the US Embassy in Ukraine denounced the existence of these filtration camps, arguing that it compared the war in Ukraine with that in Chechnya in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century.

Later, Ukraine pointed in the same direction and confirmed the existence of a filtration field in the vicinity of Mariupol. Now the Ukrainian side has denounced these facilities as "a children's toy" compared to those on the Russian border.

Andriuschenko has urged Ukrainians trying to flee Russia to use other routes and avoid the border area with Estonia. "Use other escape routes, including through Belarus and Georgia," he has recommended.

As reported by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, Liudmila Denisova, more than 200,000 Ukrainians have been deported from Mariupol to Russia since the beginning of hostilities, at the end of February.