Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denisova said that a camp for forced deportees from Ukraine had been set up in the Penza region of the Russian Federation.
• it is a closed institution with several buildings, surrounded by a fence, guards, and a checkpoint at the entrance;
• Ukrainians cannot move freely - it is forbidden to leave the camp;
• There are more than 400 Ukrainian citizens in the camp - mostly women and 147 children of all ages, including infants. One of these days, approximately 150 more people will be forcibly brought there;
• People have been living in the camp for several weeks. They do not have the necessary clothes, shoes, or even underwear. They were taken from the basements in winter clothes that they had been wearing;
• representatives of Sberbank arrived in the camp to collect the list of names to open accounts and transfer 10 thousand rubles, but this did not happen;
• There are also foreign students from Turkmenistan in the camp who hid in a bomb shelter under a student dormitory in Mariupol without food, water, heat and light, and then reached the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region on their own, from where they were forcibly taken to Russia. Unlike Ukrainians, they were allowed to leave the camp.
• There are three other similar camps in Penza region, to which residents of the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions were deported in February before the war. Ukrainians are forcibly relocated to various regions of Russia, including Khabarovsk.