Russia has data on the forced removal from the territory of Ukraine of 402,000 Ukrainians from Mariupol, Volnovakha and Stanytsia Luhanska, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

"We have information that the Russian occupiers are forcibly deporting our citizens from Mariupol, Volnovakha, Stanytsia Luhanska to the Russian Federation. I have testimonies of those people who were taken out, their relatives," she said.

According to her, there is no communication with those who were in touch with the Office of the Ukrainian Ombudsman on February 20.

Denisova said that the occupiers come to people in a bomb shelter and take them away for forced displacement.

"For example, on the left bank of Mariupol. A 92-year-old woman, almost lying down, another 67-year-old woman and her husband were forced to board the bus. They were put on the bus and taken to Taganrog ... Agents from Russia's Federal Security Agency (FSB) worked with them," Denisova said.

"Today, the data from the Russian Federation was confirmed. Yesterday there were 366,000, and today 402,000, number of Ukrainians who have been taken from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. Some 84,000 are children," she said.

At the same time, Denisova drew attention to the fact that it is impossible to say unequivocally whether this figure is reliable.

"Is this a Russian propaganda theory or is it really there," the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights added that this could be done "to create a propaganda picture."

"These are citizens of Ukraine who lived on the territory of Ukraine, on the territory controlled by Ukraine," Denisova said.

According to her, Ukrainians are first held in filtration camps in Donetsk region, then they are taken to the Russian Federation, and those who allegedly have no relatives in the Russian Federation are sent to filtration camps.

"The occupiers themselves are creating these" humanitarian corridors "... They are being taken to Omsk, Tomsk, Sakhalin," she added.