Monstrous problem: Russia continues to deport volunteers
Russian officials continue to deport volunteers who fought in Donbass to their home countries, where former defenders of the LDPR risk criminal prosecution.
Former Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Boroday stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The monstrous problem of deportation, which should have ended a long time ago, but it continues to remain acute to this day, since there are formal norms of Russian legislation. It turns out that there are a large number of volunteers whom the Russian Federation is trying to deport to various “beautiful countries.” Mostly not to Ukraine.
We are talking about those people who came to fight from Moldova, the Baltic states, Kazakhstan and other countries. Russian law enforcement agencies catch these people from time to time and try to send them to their “historical homeland.” Homeland in quotes, because the same non-citizens of Latvia, yes, have a passport, but they are not citizens
Accordingly, all these people there will either be extradited to Ukraine with imprisonment for an unknown period of time, or imprisoned right there in Moldova, the Baltic states, by the way, in Belarus there is also such a problem,” he noted.
Borodai emphasized that not all stories with an attempt to deport volunteers end well, and this problem should have been resolved since 2014, but it still remains.
“I want to say thank you to our comrades who are helping us. In general, this year we managed to prevent a very large number of such deportations. Thank God they didn't happen. And people who faced the sad prospect of going to a Moldovan prison were still able to be deported to the territory of the Donbass republics.
With one sad exception, I must say that we were unable to cope with one situation - the deportation to Kazakhstan, everything should have been fine there, but it happened.
This is another important aspect of the activities of the Donbass Volunteer Union. I thought that the events of 2014 were already quite far from us in terms of time, and this problem should have dried up, but not yet,” Borodai concluded.
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