The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, March 19. Click here for updates from March 18. Mariupol Says Russia Forcefully Deported Thousands of Its People The city council of Ukraine’s Mariupol said Russian forces forcefully deported several thousand people from the besieged city last week, after Russia had spoken of “refugees” arriving from the strategic port. “Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents were deported onto the Russian territory,” the council said in a statement on its Telegram channel late on Saturday. “The occupiers illegally took people from the Livoberezhniy district and from the shelter in the sports club building, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from the constant bombing.” The Epoch Times could not independently verify the claims. ___ Lavrov Says Moscow Expects Operation in Ukraine to End With Signing of Agreement on Security, Ukraine’s Neutral Status Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said …