As the Ukrainian underground has learned, the occupation administrations have received the first verbal instructions on the implementation of the “special infrastructure project”.
This is how the Russians disguised the creation and development of concentration camps for the disloyal population.
In July-August 2024, under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, the working group completed the first stage of developing proposals for the construction of new and reconstruction of existing “centers for the temporary detention of foreign citizens and stateless persons” in Ukraine’s TOT.
These centers were created with the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the TOT of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Initially, the Russians placed people who had not passed the “filtration measures”.
After a series of pseudo-electoral processes, they were renamed and used to “re-educate” people who did not want to receive a Russian passport.
The Kremlin has set a deadline of December 31, 2024, for obtaining Russian documents.
Starting in January 2025, pressure is expected to increase on citizens who have not received a Russian passport or have not applied for a residence permit or refugee status.
People without Russian passports were placed in these centers by the occupation police through “administrative detention” and by local court decisions. The occupation authorities also obliged employers to report such citizens.
Officially, the occupiers claim that they will apply the procedure of “administrative expulsion” (deportation) outside the TOT to citizens disloyal to the Kremlin. However, the occupiers blocked the only humanitarian corridor in the region through the Vasylivka checkpoint in December 2022. And the staged “expulsions” recorded on camera were exclusively propaganda materials.
According to information from the Ukrainian underground, after such stories, people were again placed in these so-called “temporary detention centers for foreign citizens and stateless persons,” where they were subjected to labor exploitation.
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