Some detainees were paraded before foreign journalists, according to a Russian government report seen by RIA Novosti
Ukrainian troops operating in Russia’s Kursk Region rounded up local civilians and placed them in “something like concentration camps,” RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing a Russian Foreign Ministry report.
When Ukrainian forces poured across the border into Kursk Region last month, thousands of civilians were evacuated or fled deeper into the Russian heartland. Some, including elderly people and those with disabilities, were unable to leave, and their settlements fell under Ukrainian control.
According to a new report seen by RIA Novosti, those left behind were subjected to detention methods unseen since the Second World War.
“In a number of territories controlled by militants, something like ‘concentration camps’ were created, where civilians who did not want or were unable to leave the territory captured by the enemy…