Russia immediately dismissed the claim as “fantasy”, calling it the latest invention in a Western disinformation campaign. The accusation came during a Security Council meeting called by the United States and Albania to discuss Russia’s “filtering operations.” This includes Ukrainians who voluntarily flee the war in their homeland and those forcibly transported to Russia through a series of “filter points” where treatment reportedly ranges from interrogations, data collection and strip searches to being sidelined, tortured, sent to a reservation. in Russia and I have never seen before. US. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said estimates from various sources, including the Russian government, indicate that Russian authorities have interrogated, arrested and forcibly deported between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainians. He said they are sent to Russia, often to isolated areas in its eastern regions. “These operations are aimed at identifying individuals that Russia considers insufficiently compliant or compatible with its control,” Thomas-Greenfield said. And there is growing and credible evidence that those deemed a threat to Russian control because of perceived pro-Ukrainian leanings are being ‘disappeared’ or further detained.” The Russian presidency not only coordinates the filtering operations, but provides lists of Ukrainians to be targeted for filtering, he added. He said estimates show thousands of children have been infiltrated, “some separated from their families and taken from orphanages before being put up for adoption in Russia.” According to US intelligence, “more than 1,800 children were transferred from Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine to Russia” in July alone, he said. Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, accused the West of trying to hurt his country. He said more than 3.7 million Ukrainians, including 600,000 children, have gone to Russia or the Russian-controlled separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, but “are not being held in prisons.” “They live freely and voluntarily in Russia and no one prevents them from moving or prevents them from leaving the country,” he said. Nebenzia said these Ukrainians went through “a process of registration, not filtering” similar to that for Ukrainian refugees in Poland and other European Union countries. He said that because we “wasted time talking about the latest speculations and fantasies” on Wednesday, Russia is proposing that the Security Council hold a meeting on Thursday “on real threats to international peace and security caused by the supply of arms and military goods by foreign states in Ukraine”. French Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere, the council’s current president, scheduled the meeting for Thursday afternoon. It will be the third consecutive meeting of the Security Council for Ukraine. On Tuesday, the council held a meeting at Russia’s request to hear about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of bombing the facilities and threaten a possible nuclear holocaust. Thomas-Greenfield said the United States knew Russia would deny using filtering, “but there’s a simple way to know if any of this is true.” “Let the United Nations in,” he told Nebenzia and other council members. “Give access to independent observers. Give access to NGOs. Allow humanitarian access. Let people see what’s going on.” UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo called for investigations into the “extremely disturbing” and persistent allegations “of forced displacement, deportation and so-called ‘filtration camps’ run by the Russian Federation and associated local forces.” He called for UN access to Ukrainians living in Russian-controlled areas and reiterated that the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine “must have unfettered access to all persons detained in connection with the ongoing war”. “This includes access to detention facilities for Ukrainian prisoners of war and prisoners in the Russian Federation,” he said. “Both sides in the conflict must fully comply with their obligations under international law.” Ilze Brands Kehris, the UN assistant secretary-general for human rights, urged Russia to give her Geneva-based office access to all detention facilities. He added that any adoptions of children from Ukraine to Russia would violate the Geneva Convention that prohibits changing a child’s personal status, including its nationality. Kehris said the UN human rights office “has verified” that the Russian armed forces and associated armed groups are subjecting civilians to “screening” security checks, which it has credible reports have resulted in numerous human rights violations. , including the rights to liberty, personal security and privacy. The human rights office has documented that Russian troops and their affiliates subject Ukrainians to body searches that sometimes include strip searches, questions about their personal background, family ties, political views and allegiances and cell phone tests, Kehris said. The office has also documented that men and women believed to have ties to Ukraine’s military or government, or to hold pro-Ukrainian or anti-Russian views, were “subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment and enforced disappearance” and transferred to penal colonies, the office said. Millet.
