The European Broadcasting Union Investigative Journalism Network says Moscow has been systematically eradicating Ukrainian identity in illegally annexed eastern territories. Its report said ''breaking or ignoring Russia's rules can make it hard to survive''.
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The European Broadcasting Union Investigative Journalism Network says Moscow has been systematically eradicating Ukrainian identity in illegally annexed eastern territories.
In an extensive investigation spanning several months, the EBU Investigative Journalism Network found millions of people living in occupied locations including Donetsk, Luhansk and parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are being denied access to basic services such as pensions and healthcare and free movement unless they take on Russian citizenship and swear allegiance to Russia.
New legislation signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in April states that residents who have not acquired citizenship by July 2024 will be considered ‘foreigners or stateless people’, and subject to deportation.
The journalists’ report said in places where Moscow’s rules apply, breaking them can make it hard to survive, but adhering to them could mean prosecution for collaboration by the Ukrainian state.
According to the EBU investigation, eyewitness and expert accounts reveal incidences of torture, coercion, deportation, cultural erasure, and military indoctrination, contravening international law and in some cases amounting to possible war crimes.
Agnes Callamard, General Secretary of Amnesty International, said the education system aims to erase children’s Ukrainian identity.
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