Militants are to set up a 'temporary detention centre' for people to be 'expelled' in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region

Militants are planning to set up a so-called "temporary detention centre" in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region for people to be "expelled". The corresponding "decree" was signed by the leader of the independent armed group "DPR" Denis Pushilin - the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andriushchenko.

According to this decree, "foreign citizens or stateless persons" will be sent to such detention centres.

A special "commission" will make decisions on "deportation" or "readmission" [the obligation of states to take back their own citizens, as well as third-country nationals and stateless persons who have illegally entered the territory of one of the contracting parties, or, having arrived legally, have lost the grounds for legal stay - ed.]

Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, believes that in this way, the militants of the illegal armed group want to legalise filtration camps.

"In the case of the 'DPR', no readmission is possible whatsoever. Never and to no one. It means life-long detention in the camp," Anriushchenko said.