INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kremlin has launched a wide-ranging campaign to force Ukrainians in occupied territories to become Russian, an investigation has
found.Ukrainians are being denied healthcare and free movement unless they take up Russian citizenship, evidence suggests.The European
Broadcasting Union (EBU), an alliance of public service media including the BBC, interviewed refugees for the investigation.They spoke of
Journalism Network that one of her friends was not provided with insulin for her diabetes - a key part of treatment - until she applied for
a Russian passport.Another friend had to become a Russian citizen to have her broken arm treated, Larysa said.She also spoke of other types
Russian passports, and medical services are out of the question
There are lots of checkpoints on the roads
people have to obtain these papers
account of pressure to obtain Russian passports is corroborated by other refugees, such as Lyudmyla (not her real name) from the occupied
If you drive your own car and the patrol stops you, and you do not have a Russian passport, they can simply take your car away
So people are forced to obtain them
Retired people are forced to obtain Russian passports to receive pensions
Ossetia, and later used them as part of its justification for invading Georgia in 2008.Russian curriculumBut Lyudmyla and her friend Oksana
(also not her real name) say the main reason why they left their homes was because their children were being forced to study the Russian
send your children to the school, you must have a Russian passport
schoolbooks which aim to justify its invasion of Ukraine
They falsely portray Ukraine as an aggressive state run by nationalist extremists and manipulated by the West, which allegedly uses the
the Russian army and forced to fight Ukrainians.PropagandaHistorian Artem Petryk was in the southern city of Kherson when it was occupied by
Russians between February and November 2022
the occupation, they seized control of television and began broadcasting Russian radio
city they put up billboards with portraits of Russian tsars, commanders, and there were slogans saying that Kherson is a city with a Russian
They marked days of the Russian flag, days of Russia, put up billboards and, of course, tried to establish control over school
which shoot, but moral ones
Sometimes these moral weapons hurt harder than a machine gun
