Ukrainian Ombudsperson: Russia massively deported nearly 440,000 people

Russian troops have launched mass deportation of the population from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, which is in violation of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova addressed the issue in a statement via Telegram, Report informs, citing Ukrinform.

"The occupiers' defense ministry reports that 90,000 citizens of Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia have already been deported from the Kherson region. Over the past day alone, more than 19,600 civilians, including 3,300 children, were deported from the temporarily non-government-controlled territories of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This was announced by the head of Russia's National Defense Management Center, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev," Denisova said.

According to the ombudsperson, in total, the Russian military claims the extraction of 439,420 civilians "from dangerous areas of Ukraine", of which 91,673 are children; from Mariupol, 98,081 people were relocated, including 183 people in the past 24 hours, "from the arbitrary actions of nationalists."

Denisova stressed that the scale of the forced relocation was comparable only to the deportation carried out by Hitler during World War 2.