Russia is conducting a campaign from purposeful population extermination in Ukraine - ISW
The American Research Center is also referring to the statement of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar, who said this week that the Russian administration is trying to change the ethnic composition of Ukraine at the expense of large -scale resettlement, mainly from the poor regions of the Russian Federation.
"Russia may hope to transport the Russians to the people left by people in order to integrate the occupied territories into the Russian Federation socially, administratively, politically, economically, complicating the conditions for further reintegration of these territories into Ukraine," the ISW reads. Earlier, analysts estimated that such depopulation and resettlement campaigns are equated with "purposeful ethnic purposes" and violation of the Geneva Convention.
The new ISW report also states that Russian officials and well -known speakers in the Russian information space continue to speak with anxiety about possible counter -offensive actions of the Ukrainian forces. Employees of the American Analytical Center claim that more and more depressed and panic rhetoric, which comes from well -known Russians, is evidence that in the Russian information space they have not yet developed a single line on how to solve the growing difficulties in the near future.
Earlier, the focus understood whether Ukraine could deport all Russians after the de -occupation of the captured regions, if they refuse to travel outside the country. Over the years of the occupation of the Russian Federation, more than 1 million of its citizens have moved to Crimea. Currently, Russians are actively moving to the Luhansk region.