This is the first I'm hearing about this - is it true?

 This report is from an English newspaper. 

I haven't seen any reporting on this

 here in the States...  

Up to 5,000 residents were bundled away from the besieged city of Mariupol — with many taken to Taganrog in south-western Russia to support Putin’s deranged claim he was “liberating” Ukraine.

 

Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko likened Moscow’s actions 

to “the horrific events of World War Two, 

when the Nazis forcibly captured people”

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional administration, said: “The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing their Ukrainian documents.”

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun told Times Radio yesterday people were being taken to “very distant parts of Russia” and “forced to sign papers saying that they will stay in that area for two or three years and they will work for free in those areas”.

 

Asked if this was slave labour, she said: “It is, yes. It is.”

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