After ‘Ukrainians sent to work camps in faraway parts of Russia,’ Vladimir Putin equated to Adolf Hitler

After rumours that his invading troops were forcibly deporting Ukrainians to ominous Russian labour camps, Vladimir Putin was compared to Adolf Hitler yesterday.

Up to 5,000 people were hauled out of Mariupol’s beleaguered city, with many being transferred to Taganrog in south-western Russia to bolster Putin’s insane claim that he was “liberating” Ukraine.

Vadym Boychenko, the mayor of Mariupol, compared Moscow’s activities to “the horrific events of World War Two when the Nazis forcibly captured people”

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional administration, said: “The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing their Ukrainian documents.”

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun told Times Radio yesterday people were being taken to “very distant parts of Russia” and “forced to sign papers saying that they will stay in that area for two or three years and they will work for free in those areas”.

Asked if this was slave labour, she said: “It is, yes. It is.”

Boris Johnson drew a direct parallel between the Kremlin’s “vicious and barbarian attack on innocent civilians” and the Nazis’ activities under Adolf Hitler in the 1940s.

The Prime Minister warned that Vladimir Putin would not stop at Ukraine and that a triumph for him would usher in a “beginning of a new intimidation across the whole of Eastern Europe” and “give the green light to autocrats everywhere.”

Vladimir Putin is in “total panic” about the upheaval in Moscow, according to the Tory leader, and is attempting to “snuff out the flame of freedom in Ukraine.”

He added: “If Putin succeeds in crushing Ukraine, it will be the green light for autocrats everywhere in the Middle East, in the Far East.

“This is a turning point for the world. It’s a moment of choice. It’s a choice between freedom and oppression.”

Putin’s army have forcibly displaced ten million Ukrainians.

According to Ukraine, Moscow rockets targeted alleged humanitarian corridors out of blitzed cities Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and Sumy.

The UN has labelled escape routes that lead solely to Russia or Putin-backed Belarus as “immoral.”

The Deputy Commander of Putin’s Black Sea Fleet was assassinated yesterday, in the latest humiliating blow to the Russian leader.

Andrey Paliy was Russia’s sixth top military officer to die since the invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

First rank captain Andrey Paliy, 51, was the first senior navy officer killed in the war, following the deaths of five army generals.

Paliy was killed in a marine fight in Mariupol, according to Konstantin Tsarenko, secretary of the Sevastopol Nakhimov Naval School’s public council and a friend of Paliy’s.

Paliy was born in Kyiv and served in the Russian Northern Fleet instead of taking the Ukrainian military oath in 1993.

He had previously served on the Russian nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great and as the deputy head of the Russian naval academy in seized Crimea’s Sevastopol.

A US general warned that his forces were running out of men and weapons and that they only had a week to capture Ukraine.

The invaders were in difficulty, according to Lt Gen Ben Hodges, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

He insisted: “That’s why they have reached out to China for help and why they are now recruiting Syrians.

“Russian generals are running out of time, ammunition and manpower.”

He said Russia had already committed half its entire combat power to the war, adding: “At the height of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were about 29 per cent committed — and it was difficult to sustain that.”

Around 130,000 Russian families would be expected to bring their boys aged 18 to 25 to conscription centres on April 1 to be enrolled into the Russian Army, he said.

Lt Gen Hodges said: “We should do all we can to influence that next intake.

“If we can get some of those families to join those who are already showing the courage to protest, that would send shockwaves across Russia.”

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