As of the morning of May 21, Russia deported 1,377,925 Ukrainians to its territory, including 232,480 children.. This was announced by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

According to her, in the last 24 hours alone, the Russian Federation forcibly deported 17,306 people, including 2,213 children..

“The statements of the Russian Federation about the alleged voluntary movement of Ukrainians do not correspond to reality. We have irrefutable confirmation of the forced and pre-planned deportation,” Denisova stressed..

Another piece of evidence was a video published by Mariupol Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. This post contains a real picture of the deportation of Mariupol residents.

People are surrounded by Russian military with machine guns and are scared. The Russian invaders do not allow leaving the place of the so-called "

People are forced to board buses and only upon boarding are they told that they will be taken to a filtration camp in Bezymyanny, Novoazovsky district, and then to the Russian Federation.

“According to very approximate data, more than 32 thousand citizens passed through this camp alone.. It is impossible to establish how many of them because of their “disloyalty” to the Russian invaders and the “special operation” ended up in dungeons in the temporarily occupied territories or died, it is impossible to establish,” Denisova said..

She stressed that by its actions, the occupying country grossly violates the norms of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits the forced resettlement or deportation of persons from the occupied territory..

Deportation and forcible relocation of a population is a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Denisova appealed to the UN Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and urged to take into account these facts of Russia's crimes against humanity and violations of human rights in Ukraine.

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