Ukraine's Mariupol says Russia forcefully deported thousands of its people

The Russian TASS news agency reported on Saturday that 13 buses were moving to Russia, carrying more than 350 people, about 50 of whom were to be sent by rail to the Yaroslavl region and the rest to temporary transition centres in Taganrog, a port city in Russia's Rostov region.

Russia's Defence Ministry said this month that Russia had prepared 200 buses to"evacuate" Mariupol citizens. RIA Novosti agency, citing emergency services, reported last week that nearly 300,000 people, including some 60,000 children, had arrived in Russia from the Luhansk and Donbas regions, including from Mariupol, in recent weeks.

The ministry also said this month that more than 2.6 million people in Ukraine had asked to be evacuated.Mariupol, a key connection to the Black Sea, has been a target since the start of the war on Feb 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he calls a"special military operation" to demilitarise and"denazify" Ukraine. Ukraine and the West say that Putin launched an unprovoked war of aggression.

As Russia has sought to seize most of Ukraine's southern coast, Mariupol has assumed great importance, lying between the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea to the west and the Donetsk region to the east, which is partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

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