[PJMEDIA] INews, an independent news source in the UK, is reporting that a network of former Soviet sanatoriums and other sites in regions including Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle, and the Far East, are housing Ukrainians forcibly removed from their homeland. Some of the camps are up to 5,500 miles from Ukraine.
| The sites are known as Temporary Accommodation Points (TAP). The Russians call them fil’tratsiia, or filtration camps. |
Moscow had ordered towns and cities across Russia to prepare for the arrival of nearly 100,000 "refugees." The Russian government now claims it has "evacuated" one million people from the war zone. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in April that 500,000 Ukrainians had been sent to Russia.
It seems clear that there are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from areas occupied by the Russian army who aren’t in Ukraine anymore. |