title: Rapidly approaching deadline: Bringing back Ukrainians deported to Russia
abstract: The Russian Federation has committed numerous grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law since it launched its full-scale aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The forcible transfers and deportations of Ukrainians – the focus of this article - however already began a few days earlier, on 18 February 2022, with the announcement of evacuations in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, occupied before 2022. Since then, the process of for
journal: Security and Human Rights