Evidence of ‘filtration camps’ emerging from areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces — OSCE

The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says there is credible evidence that Russian forces have been rounding up people in areas of Ukraine’s south and east and detaining them in “filtration camps,” where they are interrogated.

On April 28, 2022, Ambassador Michael Carpenter told the Permanent Council of the OSCE that there have been “credible reporting” that Russia’s forces are detaining people in these regions and “brutally interrogating them for any supposed links to the legitimate Ukrainian government or independent media outlets.”

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