Virtually all residents of the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories were forced to undergo a thorough check of the Russian security forces and collaborators.. By their actions, the occupiers violate international law, but this did not prevent them from openly deploying a multi-level filtering system for Ukrainian citizens at checkpoints, border points, filtration camps, prisons and places of residence, in the occupied territories and in Russia itself. In an article for ZN. UA " How Ukrainians are let through the filtration camps” Oleksandr Klyuzhev and Oleksandr Neberikut explained where and how the Russian invaders carry out “filtering”, thereby torturing and killing Ukrainians.

“The process of ‘screening’ people is accompanied by interrogations, beatings, stripping, bullying, kidnappings and disappearances of people. And murders. Former ATO participants and pensioners, children and activists, patriots and people who still retain reverence for Russia - they all became objects of verification. No one in the Temporarily Occupied Territories (TOT) could escape scrutiny. Even those citizens who have no connections with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the terrorist defense become the target of the occupier. It has already been officially recognized at the level of international organizations that the Russians are looking for not only people associated with the military sphere. They “catch” everyone who in their country considered himself its citizen and patriot. I put on an embroidered shirt to a child at school - welcome to hell, ”the authors noted.

Thus, indiscriminate “denazification” by the Russian invaders is usually subject to residents of Russian-speaking cities, whom, according to the version of the bloody dictator Putin, Russia came to “defend”. And if the last fact does not matter to us, since Ukraine has long known the real motives for the crimes of the Russian Federation, then this circumstance, theoretically, should have told a lot about the policy of their president to the befuddled Russian society. However, for now, as we see, the Russians continue to be content with poison about “Ukrainian Nazis”.

“Citizens who are trying to escape to the territory controlled by Ukraine are subject to especially cruel filtering.. For many of our compatriots, the hometowns seized by the invaders have become a real trap.. As the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, notes, the filtration in the city was the most severe, when there was still the possibility of evacuation towards the free part of Ukraine,” the authors added..

In turn, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, stating in her address to the UN Human Rights Council the impossibility of freely entering and leaving Mariupol, named the main manifestations of “denazification” in the process of filtering. In particular, it is accompanied by arbitrary decisions, intimidation and humiliation that can amount to ill-treatment. Cases of separation of families and violations of privacy are also recorded.. Bachelet expressed concern about the risks of detention and ill-treatment of those who do not pass the filter. “Men disappeared after they were sent to “filtration” camps” – these dry facts, mentioned in one of the UN comments, are the tragedies of Ukrainian families and unforgivable crimes.

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“In a large “package” of bullying against Ukrainians, human rights activists – from European to Russian – recorded sexual harassment and threats of sexual violence.. Unfortunately, the Putin regime is purposefully targeting Ukrainian children.. In addition to “passportization” and the removal of children to Russia, the abduction of orphans and forced teaching of the Russian language in “educational” camps, children were taken away from their detained parents or settled together with adults in terrible filtration camps,” Klyuzhev and Neberikut note..

Despite the fact that the Donetsk and Luhansk lands dotted with filtration camps are in the spotlight, residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are also forced to endure such bullying.. Everywhere people are being filtered and fingerprinted. By forbidding travel to the territory controlled by Ukraine, the occupiers are forcing citizens to flee the war zone to Russia. In fact, people are threatened by filtration before leaving the dangerous territory, deportation to Russia and the prospect of becoming a target of the FSB already on the territory of the aggressor state. Deportation by filtering drives.

Local Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina with her phrase " However, the FSB reacted to the bullying of Ukrainians in a typical way for the Russian special services and leadership: “This is all justified, if you need to undress, they will”. After all, the actions of the aggressor country are always “justified” – they “defend” Donbass, completely destroying it, “liberate” Ukrainians in camps and prisons, “denazify” Ukraine with the practices of rashism.

“As it should be for the occupier, he issues ausweisses to the victims of“ filtration ”to move around camps, occupied territories or to travel outside the occupied communities.. For those who could not pass the check of the FSB and the occupation administrations, special prisons have been prepared,” the authors write..

Thus, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova, only in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions there are 200 permanent and temporary places of illegal detention of captured military personnel and civilians, including journalists and volunteers..

“In these prisons, where anyone “filtered” can go, most of the citizens were subjected to torture and inhuman treatment.. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has data on the detention of unfiltered people in Olenivka and Donetsk, in particular in the terrible Izolyatsia prison. The number of citizens who did not survive the Russian check is not exactly known and, unfortunately, is unlikely to be established someday, ”Neklyuzhev and Neberikut noted..

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In Mariupol, the Russian invaders were reported to have tightened their screening and “filtering” due to the resistance of the local population.. In particular, when entering Mariupol from the Zaporozhye region, even those who have already passed the “filtration” are forced to undergo additional interrogation by the FSB.