Maria Zakharova: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have created "concentration camps" in the Kursk region

The armed forces of Ukraine have created a kind of "concentration camps" in the border areas of the Kursk region, where local residents were herded, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"The largest "camp" is most likely located in the building of one of the social institutions of the city of Sudzhi. According to eyewitnesses, from 70 to 120 civilians are being held there," the diplomat says.

Zakharova added that some of the residents of the border area were taken out of the Russian state. The fate of the missing, according to her, is currently unknown.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the investigative authorities of the Russian Federation are working with all the collected data:

"We are again witnessing a complete lack of reaction from international human rights organizations to what is happening."

Earlier it became known that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Ukrainian servicemen who were involved in the shooting of civilians in the Kursk region.

Prior to this, Vladimir Maltsev, a resident of Sudzhi, stated that many civilians were killed in the first days of the Ukrainian Armed Forces invasion of the Kursk region. He noted that mercenaries who dealt with people "like cockroaches" were especially zealous in this.