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Russian activist Evgenia Chirikova describes alleged ‘system of terror’ in occupied Ukraine in commission podcast
Summary
In a Transatlantic podcast interview, activist Evgenia Chirikova described investigations and two films alleging that Russian security services have run filtration camps and detention sites where Ukrainian civilians face abduction, torture and forced transfers; she cited Ukrainian figures and appealed for Western action.
Evgenia Chirikova, a Russian environmental activist based in Estonia, told the Transatlantic podcast that her investigative team has documented what she calls a “system of terror” in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, where civilians are screened, detained and in some cases sent to detention sites she and others describe as concentration camps.
Chirikova said her media project, Activatika, began investigating after the Russian invasion in 2022 and collected testimony from survivors and relatives of detainees. “We found a lot of relatives of Ukrainian prisoners… and we realized that there is a system of terror,” she said, describing accounts of phone searches, body inspections and detention for innocuous markers such as tattoos or photographs.
The interview put numbers and specific cases at the center of Chirikova’s account. Citing Ukrainian human-rights sources, she said that…
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