Russian and Belarusian citizens in Ukraine are living in fear of deportation as the country steps up an overzealous drive to get rid of what it claims are collaborators and spies.
Between the Russian invasion on 24 February and the start of July, Ukraine issued decisions to cancel the right to stay of 29 Belarusian and 456 Russian citizens. Such cancellations had been extremely rare in previous years.
Yet two migrants who were threatened with deportation have told openDemocracy they fully support Ukraine in the war, and feel they should be allowed to stay. Both say they would be significantly at risk were they to be deported.
