Interrogations, beatings, forced undressing, humiliation, collection of personal data, disappearances of people…

All this is filtration. Many Mariupol residents went through this humiliating and difficult process. The price people pay when undergoing the filtration procedure under occupation.

The occupiers call “filtration” the forced checks of Ukrainian citizens on the streets, in residential premises, and at checkpoints. Since spring 2022, Mariupol residents have been required to register at special filtration points.

At the level of international organizations, it has already been officially recognized that Russians are searching not only for people connected with the military sphere – 10,000 civilian Mariupol residents did not pass filtration, and their relatives and friends have no current information about the whereabouts or health of their loved ones. A large number of destroyed families, children taken to the territory of Russia, and their further fate remains unknown.

“There will never be enough words in the world to understand the people who went through filtration, and this project brings us closer to realizing the difficult path Ukrainian citizens endured. The importance of this social project cannot be overstated, because ‘Mariupol. Filtration #Live’ only reveals part of the crimes we will learn about. This is the pain of all Ukraine, and that is why we speak about it in the capital, in the space of the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv,” emphasized General Director Diana Popova.

The occupiers are trying to destroy those who, in their own country, consider themselves citizens of Ukraine and its patriots. The aggressor state does not want to part with its totalitarian past, and such violations of human rights must be studied, with every possible effort made to stop these crimes.

The exhibition “Mariupol. Filtration” tells the stories of thousands of Mariupol men and women who survived the hell of the blockade and destruction of the city, and then were forced to undergo interrogations and trials, feeling like residents of a modern ghetto.

The shameful slip of paper marked “fingerprinted” that people received after passing filtration became the document granting the right to exist in the occupied city.

Lost destinies, shattered lives… Return freedom, return our people!