In Mirnograd, the occupiers are taking civilians to filtration camps
Up to 2,000 civilians may still be in Mirnograd, Donetsk Oblast, which is not officially under occupation. According to Yuriy Tretyak, head of the Myrnohrad City Military Administration, Russian troops are likely forcibly deporting some of these people to filtration camps.
As the official noted, this primarily affects men of draft age.
“Those under the age of 50 are being taken away almost by force. Older people, who are already of advanced age, are offered the option to leave, but they are no longer being pressured to do so,” Yuriy Tretyak said.
According to the head of the Military-Civilian Administration, it is currently impossible to determine the exact number of civilians remaining in the city. In addition to local residents, people from surrounding settlements were also in Myrnohrad.
Despite the difficult situation, Myrnohrad has not yet been officially recognized as occupied. Yuriy Tretyak noted that Ukrainian military personnel periodically enter the city, but it is now practically impossible to evacuate the civilian population.
According to the city’s military administration, the last evacuation of civilians from Myrnohrad took place in the winter using ground-based robotic systems, as the security situation did not allow for conventional evacuation operations.
Yuriy Tretyak, head of the Myrnohrad City Military Administration, spoke about this in an interview with “Free Radio.”
Prior to this, the Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine announced a significant intensification of filtration measures in the temporarily occupied territories.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russians are conducting filtration raids under the guise of “training exercises.” Soldiers stop vehicles, search people, and examine their phones in an attempt to identify pro-Ukrainian citizens.
