US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a meeting of the Security Council that officials from the administration of Kremlin head Vladimir Putin control and coordinate "

She also stressed that the actions of the Russian occupiers related to the “filtering” procedure for Ukrainians violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and are considered a war crime..

“The forced transfer or deportation of protected persons from occupied territories to the territory of an occupying country is a serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons, which is a war crime,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

The US Permanent Representative to the UN also said that, according to available information, the occupiers conducted a “filtering” and deported from 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainians to Russia.

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The United States believes that the occupation authorities are thus trying to prepare the annexation of the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories and hold fake referendums, in particular in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

“Certainly, we will never recognize any attempts by Russia to forcefully change the borders of Ukraine. We must bring the perpetrators of these atrocities to justice.. We must respond as an international community that still respects the UN Charter,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Also, the deputy official representative of the US State Department, Vedant Patel, said at a briefing that the Russian Federation uses filtration camps for interrogation and deportation of Ukrainians..

According to him, representatives of the Putin administration provide lists of Ukrainians to be filtered and receive reports on the scale and progress of "

“We demand that the Russian Federation immediately stop the filtration operations and provide the UN, independent observers, humanitarian and human rights organizations with access to these filtration sites,” Patel emphasized..

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Earlier, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch published a report on the filtration camps of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

The report refers to the crimes and violations of international humanitarian law by the Russian invaders.