
Moscow has been accused of forcibly deporting more than 400,000 civilians from war-torn Ukrainian cities to Russia as a tactic to pressure president Volodymyr Zelensky into surrendering.
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s troops took 420,000 people, including 84,000 children, against their will from bomb shelters, Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, said on Thursday as the war entered its second month.