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Russia holds about 27,000 Mariupolites in “filtration camps” in Donetsk Oblast – Mariupol authorities

byYuri Zoria
19/04/2022
3 minute read
dead bodies in mariupol; meanwhile russia deports those alive via filtration camps
Mariupol, 17 April 2022. Source.
Russia holds about 27,000 Mariupolites in “filtration camps” in Donetsk Oblast – Mariupol authorities
As of April 18, the Russian occupation forces are holding almost 20,000 people in the so-called "filtration camps" west of Mariupol "along the line" Nikolske-Manhush-Yalta, according to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko. Additionally, the official wrote on Telegram, 5,000-7,000 people remain in a filtration camp in the village of Bezimenne west of Mariupol being prepared for deportation to Russia.
The ongoing deportation of the Ukrainians to Russia presented in Russian propaganda outlets as evacuation includes passing the deportees through various checks in what the Russian authorities call the "filtration camps," where the Russian special services interrogate and search people, collect their biometric data, copy the content of their mobile phones. Anyone suspected of having a pro-Ukrainian position gets "filtered out," i.e. arrested and sent to a Russian detainment center.
“According to available information, about 5% don’t pass the filtration due to their pro-Ukrainian position and disappear,” Mr. Andryushchenko reported earlier.
On 12 April, Ukrainian Deputy PM Iryna Vereshchuk said
that Russia holds a total of approximately 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the prisons of Russia proper and the occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donbas region. About 500 of those captives are women.
Russia distributes its passports among forcibly deported Ukrainians – Ombudswoman
On 11 April, Ukrainian Ombudsperson Lyudmyla Denisova

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reported that since the beginning of the all-out war, Russia deported more than 700,000 Ukrainians, of whom more than 131,000 were children. She referred to a Russian media outlet citing the official data, which also mentioned that 134,000 Mariupol residents were among those deported. Often, the deported are denied opportunities to return to Ukraine or escape from Russia to the safety of the EU countries.
Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mariupol was home to more than 400,000 people. In the first week of the invasion, the Russian forces surrounded the city and started shelling and bombing its territory using all conventional weapons they possess. In a month, most of the buildings in the city were heavily damaged or destroyed. In late March, Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko reported
that according to preliminary estimates, 5,000 people died in Mariupol during the month of the siege, of which about 210 were children. However, it has been impossible to count all the victims became many of them remain buried under the rubble. The Ukrainian military reported that 13 Russian mobile crematoria were spotted in Mariupol to clean the streets of the bodies of dead civilians to hide evidence of the Russian crimes in the city. According to the Mariupol City Council, more than 90% of the city’s infrastructure has been destroyed and at least 40% of that is beyond repair.
"There is the territory of Mariupol, but there is no city - [Russians] destroyed everything… The city is not there, it is the territory of the city. And it is soaked in blood," Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said in one of his latest interviews.

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