The NGO interviewed 54 people who were forced to leave Ukraine.
Tbilisi
Here are 71 pages that bring us closer to Russia’s intentions in Ukraine. Intentions that raise questions, so many Russian leaders, such as ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, seem anxious to re-educate Ukrainians, starting by teaching them the language of Pushkin rather than Ukrainian. This Thursday, the NGO Human Rights Watch publishes its report ““We had no choice”: “Screening” and the war crime of forcible transfer of Ukrainian civilians to Russia”, the result of several months of investigation which document the way in which the Russian army drains towards its territory the civil populations of the conquered regions in the south and the east of Ukraine, of the martyred city of Mariupol in particular.
These forced transfers of civilians “are a serious violation of the laws of war and constitute war crimes and possible crimes against humanity”, points out the report. “It is difficult to say with certainty why the Russian army and its proxies have…
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