"[The announcement that 240,000 Ukrainians will be deported] is gangster stuff. And while nothing about it is surprising, given who Trump is, it’s perilously close in a moral sense to hostage taking. ...
This is a population that is disproportionately young and disproportionately female—military aged males being generally barred from leaving Ukraine."
~ Benjamin Wittes
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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--a-ukrainian-hostage-situation