Good find; thanks! So it is repatriations.

I hope the US doesn’t do that, because forcing people into a war zone against their will would be even more cruel than the typical deportations already are.

Russia started the large-scale military invasion

This line made me laugh, because the author obviously started with the FULL-SCALE INVASION line that the Anglo media has been uniformly blasting for years, but—because academic work is less propagandistic than the news—they paused to give it some thought and correctly realized that there is no way to know or define what a truly “full-scale” conflict is, so they removed the absolute language.