Russian occupants are forcibly removing medical personnel and patients of city hospital No. 4 in Mariupol in the Donetsk region to temporarily occupied territory, the Mariupol City Council said Thursday morning, April 7, distributing a corresponding video.
"New facts of Russian war crimes. Occupiers forcibly removed Mariupol residents to the territory of the Russian Federation and the so-called "DPR." The staff and patients of the city hospital #4 named after Matsuka were forcibly removed from Mariupol to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
It is known that armed men came to the medical facility and ultimatumed that the doctors and patients had to leave and get into the occupants' transport. The exhausted and frightened people were forced to carry out the orders of the Russian terrorists," the city council pointed out.
In the mayor's office note: what will happen to people is unknown. "Previously, there were already confirmed cases where people were sent to depressed regions of Russia (although there are no others there now)," the city council added.
"We are forming a single database of illegally deported people in order to then return every Mariupol resident to Ukraine. We already understand that the occupants forcibly removed at least 40 thousand residents of Mariupol. Our goal is to create an effective mechanism for the return of these people. This is a difficult work, which we conduct in full coordination with Pavlo Kirilenko, chairman of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration," said Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko.
