Evacuated to Russia
More than a million Ukrainian civilians from Mariupol and other war-ravaged towns in the east of the country have been transported over the border into the territory of their country\u2019s enemy, Russia. The authorities there have dispersed them into a chain of \u201ctemporary accommodation centres\u201d across Russia, some of them thousands of miles from Ukraine. Russia claims it\u2019s rescued the refugees \u2013 and says some want to build new lives with Russian citizenship in places as far away as Vladivostok, on the Pacific Ocean. But many of the Ukrainians are trying to avoid or leave the accommodation centres, and get out of Russia \u2013 and they\u2019re being helped by a network of volunteers inside and outside the country. Ukraine says many of the \u201cevacuees\u201d have been forcibly deported to Russia against their will \u2013 and they\u2019re being subjected to a form of slavery in sealed camps. Tim Whewell talks to refugees in Russia \u2013 and others who\u2019ve managed to leave the country \u2013 to try to find out what\u2019s really going on.