Our @nytvideo team went to Estonia to interview a dozen Ukrainian refugees who survived the siege of Mariupol & were then forced to resettle in Russia. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been forcibly removed & pressured to take Russian citizenship.
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Everyone we spoke to had been subjected to intrusive interrogations known as “filtration” before being put on evacuation trains to remote locations around Russia. They described seeing men who didn’t pass the screening being led away without explanation.
The refugees we interviewed managed to find their way out of Russia and escape to the EU - a trickle of people cross each day - but the vast majority of those forced out of the eastern parts of Ukraine remain behind enemy lines without the resources or ability to get out.
Thank you to @IngaSpringe & @holger_r in Estonia, cinematographer @AlesPavone and @tiefenthaeler and @sameenamin in New York for their tireless work putting this investigation together and to all the Ukrainian refugees who were brave enough to share their stories with @nytvideo.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still stuck in Russia without the resources to escape. This organization in Estonia pays for hotels, food and travel to get people out and relies on a network of hundreds of selfless volunteers in Russia and Europe. mariupolisobrad.helihool.ee/index.html#don…
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