THEN:
Russian forces are sending Ukrainian citizens to “filtration camps” before forcibly relocating them to Russia, according to the accounts of two women who said they were transported to Russian territory from the besieged city of Mariupol last month.
“On 15 March, Russian troops stormed into our bomb shelter and ordered all the women and children to get out. It was not a choice,” said one woman who had been hiding with her family in a suburb of Mariupol since early March. “People need to know the truth, that Ukrainians are being moved to Russia, the country that is occupying us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/hundreds-of-ukrainians-forcibly-deported-to-russia-say-mariupol-women
NOW:
“Reverse deportation”: Russia returns Ukrainians from Pskov to war-torn Mariupol 15.08.2022
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3550691-reverse-deportation-russia-returns-ukrainians-from-pskov-to-wartorn-mariupol.html
“That’s according to Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to the legitimate Mariupol Mayor, who reported the news on Telegram, Ukrinform saw.”
Hey, everyone knows the Ukrainian authorities don’t lie.
Right?
I guess they know there’s enough to believe them. They know there’s a sucker born every minute.