More than 1 million Ukrainian citizens have been illegally removed to the territory of the Russian Federation, said Lyudmila Denisova, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

"More than 1 million 185,000 of our citizens, including more than 200,000 children, have been deported to the territory of the Russian Federation," Denisova said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

According to her, those citizens of Ukraine who underwent "filtration camps" set up by the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories are subject to forced deportation.

She noted that some "filtration camps" hold more than 20,000 Ukrainian citizens.

Denisova demonstrated three certificates which are necessary for a person to move in the occupied territories: dactyloscopy (confirming that the person has undergone filtration), a pass to move in the locality where the filtration camp is located, and a pass which is needed to travel outside the locality.

According to her, nothing is known about the fate of those who have not undergone filtration.