Russia continues to conduct large-scale forced deportations of Ukrainians that likely amount to a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign, the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think-tank, said in it its latest update.
Ukrainian civilians receive humanitarian aid in the recently recaptured city of Kupiansk, east of Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, 15 October 2022. Photo: EPA/ATEF SAFADI
The assessment also reads Russian officials have „openly admitted to placing children from occupied areas of Ukraine up for adoption with Russian families.”
The report adds: „Russian authorities may additionally be engaged in a wider campaign of ethnic cleansing by depopulating Ukrainian territory through deportations and repopulating Ukrainian cities with imported Russian citizens.”
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Source: PAP, https://www.understandingwar.org/