The " With a humiliating test of citizens, they introduce their ideology. The ideology of destroying the right to exist of everything Ukrainian, writes Oleksandr Klyuzhev and Oleksandr Neberikut in an article for ZN. UA " How Ukrainians are passed through filtration camps.

The authors note that the Ukrainian-hating approach is best evidenced by the words of those who went through the “filtering” itself.. In particular, Yulia Pustovit, a resident of Rubezhnoye, says: “. They asked about the attitude towards the Ukrainian language, how much you communicate with it, are you satisfied that people in the Donbass were forced to speak Ukrainian… They free us from Ukraine.”.

“So, according to the plan of the Russian Nazis, one who refuses the country of his birth, his language, patriotic feelings and, in fact, his whole life, can successfully pass the filtration,” the article says..

Klyuzhev and Neberikut add that, in combination with the humanitarian policy in the temporarily occupied territories of the Russian Federation, it clearly demonstrates the position: Ukrainians have no right to exist.

" Especially if this goal is to deny the very concept of Ukrainian statehood in the areas now controlled by the Russian Federation in order to more easily absorb these parts of Ukraine,” US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter aptly described Russian policy back in May.. This circumstance of the Russian “special operation” should always be remembered by those who want peace with Russia at the expense of territorial concessions to Ukraine.

At the same time, answering the question whether the world noticed the tragedy of “filtration” of Ukrainians, the authors note that both yes and no.

“The world media and politicians talk about the criminal practice of Russians, but the majority states the impossibility of influencing the situation. Crime has become commonplace.. There is a threat that they will be perceived as the inevitable consequences of war. It is important to keep looking for ways to save people. International organizations should be more persistent in demanding access to the occupied territories and expelling the occupying state from solid international institutions, in which, after all the crimes, it has no right to be,” the authors note..

They also quoted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who said at the annual OSCE security conference: “The OSCE must make a choice: let the Russian Federation destroy the organization or find a way to suspend its powers.”.

“Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine must demonstrate high standards for documenting and investigating crimes against citizens committed during the occupational filtration. To this end, it is necessary to create a real system for collecting testimonies of citizens both within the country and among Ukrainian refugees.. Officials should quickly remove bureaucratic barriers before the return of Ukrainians from Russia.

The main thing is not to perceive crimes as commonplace,” Klyuzhev and Neberikut added..

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The construction of an extensive, multi-level and mass system of \? Before the full-scale invasion in February 2022, the occupier used filtering practices in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but they were not so large-scale. Then the citizens had the opportunity to move relatively safely between the WTO and the free territories of Ukraine. Now there is no such possibility..