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Katy Fallon

Fear grows for migrants held in Ukraine’s detention centre

Local residents walk past a building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Concerns have been raised about a European Union-funded migrant detention centre near Ukraine’s Lutsk city which appears to continue to hold an unconfirmed number of migrants despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.

Located in a pine forest in northwest Ukraine near the Belarusian border, the Volyn region’s Zhuravychi Migrant Accommodation Centre is a former army barracks constructed in 1961 that was converted into a migrant detention centre in 2007 with EU funds.

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