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Ukranians living in Russian controlled parts of Ukraine are being given the choice to either become loyal citizens of Russia or have their homes and property confiscated, their children taken away from them and shipped off to Russia, and then be tortured, often to death, in Russian gulags.
If Trump wins, he'll give President Zelensky the choice to either hand Russian controlled parts of Ukraine over to Russia and end the war, or be cut off entirely from US support.
From the NY Times article (short excerpt from a much longer article:
Moscow is employing a variety of tactics, including torture and forced Russian citizenship, to try to obliterate Ukrainian identity, former detainees and human rights groups say.
The ultimate aim of Moscow’s efforts, rights advocates said, is to extinguish Ukrainian identity through such tactics as propaganda, re-education, torture, forced Russian citizenship and sending children to live in Russia.
The fate of Ukrainians in these areas is one reason Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said he would not accept a peace deal that would cede territory to Russia. “Ukraine does not trade its land, and does not abandon its people,” he said at a conference on Crimea in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in September.
