Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:07:42 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/21/banned-from-home-for-40-years-deportation-russia-latest-move-to-cleanse-occupied-ukraine>

"Earlier this year, Serhiy Serdiuk was deported from Russia, along with his
wife and daughter. He was given a 40-year ban from re-entering the country.

Serdiuk’s home town of Komysh-Zoria, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, was part
of the territory occupied in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion in
spring 2022. According to Moscow, it is now part of Russia. And because
Serdiuk, the headteacher of a local school, refused to work for the new
authorities, they decided he had no place living there.

“I was born there, I’ve lived my whole life there, in the same place,” said
Serdiuk, in a recent interview in the city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional
capital still controlled by Kyiv, where he now lives. “Now I am kicked out of
my own home and told I didn’t live in the country I thought I lived in? How is
this possible?”

The deportation of Serdiuk and his family is part of a continuing “cleansing”
operation of the occupied territories, which may accelerate if US-led attempts
to push Russia and Ukraine into a peace deal result in the freezing of the
current frontlines, solidifying Russian control over the territory Moscow has
seized over the past three years."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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