Nearly a million Ukrainians deported to Russia

The Kremlin-controlled Interfax news agency proudly admits that nearly a million Ukrainians have been sent to Russia since the invasion that began on February 24 -- in other words, they’ve been deported to regions that apparently include Vladivostok, nine thousand miles from home. So Putin is aping the ethnic cleansing policies of Joseph Stalin, who in the 1940s killed or deported millions of eastern European to Siberia and Kazakhstan, replacing them with Russian nationals. (These are the same Russian speakers whom Putin now claims to be “liberating.”)

The story quotes Mikhail Mizintsev of Moscow’s National Defense Control Center as saying on Saturday: "Over the past day [i.e., Friday, April 22], without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 16,838 people were evacuated to Russia from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, including 1,402 children, making a total, since the beginning of the special military operation, of 951,329 people, including 174,689 children." 

“According to him,” the story continues “during [Friday] the Russian authorities received 287 appeals from citizens of Ukraine wishing to move to Russia. In total, the database of those wishing to leave for the Russian Federation contains 2,752,552 people from 2,129 settlements of Ukraine.” So Putin plans to triple the number of forced refugees over the coming months. "More than 9.5 thousand temporary accommodation centers continue to operate in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which are fully equipped with the necessary equipment, they provide places for recreation and hot meals. Individual work is carried out with the arriving refugees, they are provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance," Mr Mizintsev said.

Not only can this gentleman predict the number of “refugees” who’ll be arriving in Russia, but he can also foresee a chemical weapons attack in the port city of Odessa. "The most likely scenario could be an imitation of a missile attack by the Russian armed forces on the western naval base of the Ukrainian Navy, as a result of which the port's cold storage facility, located 500 meters from the military facility, will be blown up," he specified, again quoting Interfax.ru. "To implement this scenario, a tank with 10 tons of ammonia was delivered from Odessa to the territory of the enterprise on April 18, and law enforcement officers and special services in the Odessa region were given personal protective equipment," Mizintsev added.