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🔴 Vladimir Putin has been accused of “abducting and deporting” thousands of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.

It is believed he is transporting them deep inside Russia.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian authorities alleged Russian forces had rounded up several thousand residents from the shattered port before sending them to remote cities hundreds of miles from the border

On Sunday night, Moscow gave Ukraine a deadline to surrender Mariupol as gun battles raged in the city centre.

🗣️The Russian defence ministry said Ukrainian and foreign armed units must drop their weapons “without exception” and leave between 7am and 9am (UK time) on Monday.

But on Sunday night Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereschuk said there was no question of surrendering Mariupol, the online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda reported

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📺 Russian state media broadcast clips of hundreds of Ukrainians whom it said had been rescued and evacuated from Mariupol to Russian cities.

But Ukrainian officials said they had instead been forced to travel and had been told they had to live and work in their new homes.

It came as Boris Johnson spoke on Sunday night with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, to ask for “an assessment of Ukraine’s military requirements” in advance of his meetings with G7 and Nato leaders this week.

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