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(U) Russian Filtration Operations

(U) Russia almost certainly is subjecting Ukrainian civilians in occupied (U)

areas to so-called filtration operations. Individuals face one of three fates Select Russian destinations
after undergoing filtration, which include being issued documentation Select filtration operations
and remaining in Russian-occupied Ukraine, forcefully deported to Ukrainians gathered for filtration
Russia, or detained in prisons in eastern Ukraine or Russia. Notional movement of deported Ukrainians

R U S S I A
EST Perm

L AT VIA Pskov Vladimir

Omsk Sea of
LITH Moscow Okhotsk
Ulyanovsk Ufa Lake
BEL ARUS Baikal
POL AND
Kyiv Belgorod Sakhalin
Detail
SLOVAKIA UKRAINE Donetsk Makiivka
Olenivka
HUNGARY MOL Starobeshevo K AZ AKHSTAN
Ta t a r
Dokuchavesk Kozatske MONGOLIA Strait
ROMANIA
Nikolske
Manhush Taganrog Vladivostok
Black Sea
BULGARIA Mariupol
JAPAN
Novoazovsk Nakhodka
GEORGIA K YRGYZSTAN
Bezimenne
N. KOR
ARM AZER CHINA
GREECE TURKE Y 0 50 100 Kilometers Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

(U) Filtration Process Visualized

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Those deemed most threatening
DEEMED probably are detained and imprisoned
MOST THREATENING DETENTION in eastern Ukraine or Russia.
Little is known about their fates.

Those deemed less threatening but

DEEMED FORCED still hostile probably are forcibly
INTAKE PROCESSING LESS THREATENING DEPORTATION deported to Russia.

MOST
DEEMED
NON-THREATENING DOCUMENTATION Those deemed non-threatening
Individuals are detained probably are either issued
and taken to filtration Individuals are temporarily documentation and permitted to
waypoints, or stopped at detained and evaluated for remain in Ukraine or forcibly
SOME FORCED
filtration checkpoints. their perceived threat. deported to Russia.
DEPORTATION

(U) Source: Derived from open-source reporting.

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