The United States has seen indications of the arrest of some Ukrainians up in Russia invasion Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said they would be forcibly transferred to Russia on Monday, describing the actions as “unreasonable.”
“I can’t talk to how Many campsites or what they look like, Kirby told reporters when asked about the remarks of Kyiv that about 1.2 million Ukrainians were sent to Russia and placed in camps.
But we have indications that Ukrainians are being taken against their will in Russia,” adding that these measures are “unreasonable” and “not behavior of a responsible power. “
negation of Ukrainians from their own nation – often to isolated or depressed regions of According to Russia Kyiv Another indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin “simply won’t accept and respect Ukrainian sovereignty.”
Ukraine ‘President Volodymyr Zelensky said that thousands of Ukrainians were sent to Russian lands in early april, six Weeks after Russia released a file deadly invasion.
But that number has swelled since then more Of the 1.19 million, including at least 200,000 children, said the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova.
Short Kirby stop of He described the deportations as ethnic cleansing, asserting that they were not by the Pentagon place to make such decisions. But he said there is abundant evidence of “Russian brutality” during the war.
Moscow had “75 days of brutally treat the nation of Ukraine and Ukrainian people,” he said. “And every time you think they just can not fall into new low, hmm prove you wrong. “
