Ukrainians flee occupied territories through Russian 'filtration' checks

Many internally displaced Ukranians say they managed to gain acces to the Ukrainian-controlled area with the agreement of pro-Russian fighters. © Gulliver Cragg, Ludovic de Foucaud /France 24

As Ukrainian counter-offensives gather momentum to win back the city of Kherson, inhabitants in some Russian-occupied territories have been advised to leave. Russian forces are letting them out, but only if they pass time-consuming and stressful checks known as "filtration". FRANCE 24’s correspondents met some of them.

In this reception centre near Zaporizhzhia, many internally displaced Ukrainians have come from the south, fleeing Russian-occupied areas.