SEPKA-väidetavalt on Mariupolist kätte saadud mehi-naisi hakatud koguma(on viidud) Ukrainast 600km eemal Penza lähedal asuvasse vanasse Vene sõjaväeosasse, mida kasutati aastakümneid Vene keemiarelva hoiu ja matmiskohana. Ümberringi on loodus väga reostunud ning mürgine.
Survivors from the Mariupol bomb shelters have been taken to a former Russian military base 600 miles from Ukraine which was used for decades as a dump for Soviet chemical weapons, it can be revealed by @theipaper
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova has warned that more than 400 people, including 147 children, are in a fenced camp near the city of Penza, according to information she has received from concerned Russian citizens.
Ms Denisova said she had spoken about the camp to Russians “who support Ukraine”, adding: “This is a closed-type institution with a few hulls, fenced and under guard at the entrance checkpoint. The freedom of movement of our citizens is limited – leaving the camp is forbidden.”
She said the Mariupol survivors “don’t have the necessary clothes, shoes, even underwear” and lack basic supplies such as children’s food or toiletries.
“Our citizens are in an extremely difficult and oppressed state,” she said. “They don’t know their fate, to which region of the Russian Federation they will be taken.”
The camp, which was used as a barracks for the base and has been described by Russian media as a “military town”, is around a mile to the nearest village and is 16 miles from the city of Penza.
One message posted on 9 April said hundreds of people were living in “bad conditions”, adding: “They have a commander and they are literally behind barbed wire. They need to go to the city. They may or may not be released. There are no documents.”
Another said: “Yes, the refugees really are from Mariupol. Yes, really literally from the basements.
“They don’t know any of them in Leonidovka. Everyone with whom I personally, and with whom my colleagues talked, are ready to leave Russia.”
Adding that Russian volunteers had created lists of clothing that was needed including women’s shoes and baby food, he said the people described having “no option other than to go to Russia”.
The man described how the Ukrainians were taken to the city of Taganrog on the Russian side of the border from Ukraine and had wanted to go to Rostov-on-Don, but “Penza was chosen”. They had been given “migration cards”, he said.
It is surrounded by a fence with a gate and guardhouse and by a forest on four sides. The chemical plant and the walled munitions depot with 18 bunkers which were previously used for storing chemical weapons stand just over a mile to the south.
While the base ceased its chemical weapon disarmament programme in 2017, there have been long-standing concerns about pollution from the old Soviet munitions dump in Leonidovka and the location speaks to wider concerns about Ukrainians being sent to isolated parts of Russia hundreds of miles from the border.
In 1998, a Russian environmentalist named Vladimir Pankratov led a team examining soil samples at the dump.
His report said that Second World War aerial bombs containing a volatile mixture of lewisite, a poison gas, and yperite, a sulphur mustard gas, were buried a few hundred yards from the base, which housed a declared stockpile of nerve agents.
The team’s findings were described as “alarming”. Concentrations of arsenic 15,000 times greater than allowed by Russian standards were found six to 16ft deep in the soil.
Within a few miles from the dump, Pankratov’s team found levels of arsenic 10 times the permissible level in the Sursk Reservoir.
In 2008, Russia announced it was opening a facility at Leonidovka to destroy 6,800 metric tonnes of VX, sarin and soman nerve agents. Images showed men in chemical suits and gas masks working on bombs.
Russian media reported in 2017 that foresters found mushrooms “the diameter of a Panama hat”, while other reports said residents recalled seeing pink snow and “giant frogs striped like a watermelon”.
Russian news reports said that the “military town” of Leonidovka had been “like a delayed-action mine” for almost half a century.
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