The occupiers deported 308 Mariupol residents to the Far East, to the town of Nakhodka in the Primorsky Krai, Mariupol City Council reports.
"The new general plan "Ost" is executed by the rashists. In fact, the territory of Mariupol is being cleared of people. They need the territory for the corridor to the Crimea, but they do not need people,” the statement reads.
The office of the mayor's reports that initially, the russians almost leveled the city to the ground. Then, due to international pressure, half of the population was released in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. All the others were deported to the most depressed areas of Russia.
The Mariupol City Council Contact Center continues to collect information on people missing and deportees at the following numbers: +38 (050) 345 1555, +38 (067) 345 1555.
Working hours - from 8:00 to 17:00 daily, without weekends.
As reported earlier, the russian leadership had plans to deport a large part of Ukrainians to concentration camps in western Siberia for forced labor to build new cities for russians.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that russian occupation forces had already deported more than 500,000 Ukrainian citizens.
According to Western media reports, illegally deported Ukrainians are indeed being sent to the most remote and disadvantaged regions of the russian federation. They are exported to Siberia, Chechnya, the Far East, and the North Caucasus.