KIEV: A senior Ukrainian official has stated that Russia's top brass planned to deport a large number of Ukrainians to concentration camps in western Siberia, where they would be compelled to work as forced labour in the construction of new cities.

According to Ukrayinska Pravda, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu wrote an article titled "New Cities of Siberia" on September 6, 2021.

"We pay heed to such things," he stated, adding that "few individuals paid any attention to this publication."  "After attentively reading it, we realised that their goal to develop Siberia at the expense of our inhabitants and country, as has happened before, will never fade." Danilov, Shoigu stated directly that he intends to develop three to five large cities with populations ranging from 300,000 to one million people, and that "as a result, this must be done by Ukrainians."

"All of our allies' intelligence reports were about concentration camps, filtration camps, and physically eliminating the Ukrainian president and top political leadership as a high priority," said the source. Shoigu further implied in the essay that Ukrainians will be compelled to work as slaves, and that nationals from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) would be brought in to help.

Danilov, on the other hand, claimed that other CIS countries lacked the necessary number of physically capable inhabitants to carry out such a large-scale city-building project.

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