Reuters
Ukrainian refugees forcibly taken to Russia after the full-scale invasion of their home country on Feb. 24 have described a campaign of psychological terror reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps.
In an extensive investigation by the Associated Press published Wednesday, refugees recalled harrowing scenes from the filtration points Ukrainians are forced to go through by Russian authorities: strip searches, beatings, and in one case, an elderly woman literally freezing to death in a tent that reeked of corpses due to its proximity to a Mariupol mass grave.
With nearly 2 million Ukrainians forcibly deported to Russia, many of them were stripped of their identity documents and sent to remote areas of Russia where they have no family, no means of support, and little hope of ever returning home.