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US accuses Moscow of deporting Ukrainians to Russia

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US accuses Moscow of deporting Ukrainians to Russia

The US says Russia has used "filtration points" to interrogate and deport up to 1.6 million non-combatants seen by Moscow as "threatening" to its invasion of Ukraine. The United States on Wednesday said it had evidence that "hundreds of thousands" of Ukrainian citizens were interrogated, detained and forcibly deported to Russia.  Speaking during a UN Security Council meeting convened to discuss Russia's "filtration operations," Washington's UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Russian officials were overseeing a "a series of horrors." Thomas-Greenfield said the number of deported people is between 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainians, adding that the estimates were obtained from a range of sources, including the Russian government.  Many of the deportees are said to have been sent to isolated regions in Russia's far east.
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