Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said last week 31,000 residents had already gone to Russian 'filtration camps.'
"Some people will be mobilized to the Russian occupation corps, some will be forcibly deployed to clear the rubble, and those classified as unreliable will be isolated," he added, noting that those who are deported will be taken to a camp in Novoazovsk.Image 2 of 4
Novoazovsk is located in the Donetsk People’s Republic – a breakaway region in Ukraine’s most eastern front that has been backed by Russian forces and engaged in armed conflict with the Ukrainian army since 2014.Defense officials have warned that Russia is planning to use all its available force in the eastern Ukraine Donbas region after it failed to take the capital city of Kyiv after over a months-worth of fighting.
The Mariupol advisor said that men are being taken to filtration camps, where they are interrogated and given a body exam. Their devices are also searched. Andriushchenko reportedly claimed that five to 10 percent of the men do not"pass" the filtration process and are then sent to other areas in the Donetsk region, but it is unknown what then happens to these individuals.
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