‘Over 30,000 Ukrainians forcibly taken to Russia from Mariupol’
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – At least 30,000 Ukrainian citizens have been forcibly taken to Russia from the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol since February 24, a senior Ukrainian official said.
“The stories about what happened in Mariupol, about the people who defended their homeland, will be written in educational books for 100 years, maybe 1,000 years,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said.
Gerashchenko said the bodies of nearly 1,000 civilians were found in the Kyiv region, where the Ukrainian army has regained control, adding that hundreds of people are still missing.
The civilian death toll in Ukraine has climbed to 2,224, while 2,897 others have been injured, according to UN estimates, with the true figure feared to be much higher.
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