US EditionRussian forces take Ukrainian villagers across border, media says
Russian troops detained 50 mostly elderly Ukrainians near the border, holding them without contact before deporting them to Russia, violating international humanitarian law, officials said.
- On December 20, Russian forces illegally detained about 50 residents from the village of Hrabovske and took them into Russia, according to Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.
- The spokesperson for Ukraine's General Staff, Dmytro Lykhovii, confirmed that many of those taken were elderly and had initially refused to evacuate.
- Ukrainian law enforcement is investigating the forced deportation of civilians following the incident.
- Evacuation efforts are ongoing in border communities of Sumy Oblast due to increased Russian attacks.
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Russian troops 'kidnap 50 civilians in medieval border raid'
Russian troops have been accused of abducting Ukrainian civilians in a flash cross-border incursion into the Sumy region (Picture: Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP via Getty) Russian forces are said to have abducted 50 Ukrainian civilians from a border village in a ‘barbaric’ raid likened to mass terrorist kidnappings. Vladimir Putin’s troops allegedly crossed into the northern Sumy region last Thursday before ‘kidnapping’ the group of mainly elderly women.…
Russian soldiers took Ukrainians from the Sumy border region in the north-east of the country to Russia. The attacks also continued: among other things, a Russian drone hit a sunflower oil tank in the region of the Ukrainian coastal city of Odessa. Soldiers of the Russian forces had already captured about 50 inhabitants of the village of Hrabovske on Thursday and deported them to Russia on Saturday, the Ukrainian human rights officer Dmytro Lubi…
Russian occupation forces kidnapped approximately 50 civilians from the Ukrainian border village of Grabivske in the Sumy region. Most of the abductees were elderly women, forcibly taken from their homes. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga. Sybiga reacted sharply to the crime, emphasizing that Russia's actions bear all the hallmarks of terrorism. "Such medieval raids once again prove …
The Ukrainian army announced Sunday that it is making efforts to reverse an attempt by Russian troops to cross a border area in the Sumi region, from where Kievulul accused Moscow that he had deported civilians in Russia,...
The Ukrainian army announced on Sunday that it was trying to push back an attempt by Russian troops to break through a border area in the Sumy region (Northeast), from where Kyiv accuses Moscow of illegally deporting civilians to Russia.
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