'You Are Russian Now': Ukrainian Family Recalls Deportation To Moscow

A family from Mariupol described going through a Russian filtration camp and then being taken to Moscow. The mother eventually got her children out via Belarus and Poland, while the husband chose to remain. Human Rights Watch calls the practice of forcibly moving Ukrainian citizens a war crime.

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