Russia’s “filtration” system for persons within the Donetsk oblast, organised by the so-called “Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk Peoples Republic”, is aimed at suppressing Ukrainian resistance and enforcing loyalty among the remaining population, through the registration, interrogation, and, in some cases, indefinite detention of people allegedly loyal to the Ukrainian Government.
Thus, the so-called “Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People’s Republic” is supporting materially actions which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Additionally, the so-called “Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People’s Republic” is an entity supporting materially the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.
The so-called “Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People’s Republic” is an entity established in 2014 by the Russia-aligned occupying forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk oblast. The so-called “Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People’s Republic” has since then acted as an unrecognised government entity of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”. Ministry personnel were directly involved in the forced “filtration” of Ukrainian civilians at multiple sites in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.