More than 10 thousand people are being held in filtration centres in Mariupol — mayor
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — TUESDAY, 19 JULY 2022, 15:52
In the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol and its outskirts, there are four filtration centres where Russians are currently holding more than 10,000 people.
Source: the Mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, in a briefing
Quote from Boychenko: "There are filtration centres both in the city of Mariupol and outside the city; four of them have been working all this time. Unfortunately, they have detained more than 10,000 local people."
Details: According to Boychenko, many civil servants and municipal employees are being held captive. There are no doctors in the filtration centres, so detainees are not receiving medical care.
He added that almost 2,000 men are currently being held in one of the centres. In his opinion, this is due to the upcoming mobilisation: "we understand why they are doing this. They announced that sometime in September, they would distribute these pieces of paper called Russian passports and immediately a ticket to the front."
Reminder:
- In Mariupol, the Russians will launch a new wave of covert mobilisation, offering people jobs as fire inspectors.
- A video was published for the first time on the internet showing how filtration was carried out in Mariupol at the beginning of the occupation.
