President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the invaders took about half a million people from various temporarily occupied parts of our state to the territory of the Russian Federation or to the territory of the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He said this during a press conference to foreign journalists on Saturday, April 23.
" Regarding the dead people who were tortured in the basements, buried, taken out - no one will give you exact numbers. We believe that about half a million people were taken from different occupied parts of our state to the territory of the Russian Federation or to the territory of the temporarily occupied East - to Donetsk and Lugansk regions,"
He also added that at the same time they took out about 5 thousand children..