Crimea is Russia’s training ground for colonisation, Kyiv envoy says

Like Ukraine and Russia measure in Istanbul, questions are asked about whether conversations could bring some progress, much less a peace agreement.

While Russia seems to be up to its maximist demands, widely seen as a little reluctant not only in kyiv but also out of Ukraine, one of kyiv’s main objectives has been to demonstrate to the administration of the United States that it is the main AASEF.

However, there is an issue in which kyiv and Moscow will never agree and, nevertheless, for both parties, this point is of the utmost importance: Crimea.

Vladimir Putin’s assistant, Vladimir Medinsky, who leads the Russian delegation, is considered one of the key ideologues of Russian’s large -scale invasion and its annexation as Crimea in 2014.

Olha Kuryshko, permanent representative of the Ukrainian President in Crimea, told Euronews that Moscow’s alignment serves as proof of the “continuation of the policy that the Russian Federation has been chasing all the time.”

“Many politicians who are Currendly in Power in Russia have supported and contributed in everyday way to the temporary occupation or not only Crimea, but also eather territories” Shean, in The Serean Shean, in the will Shean, Events Designed to Raise Awareness and Attention to The Annexed Peninsula Across Europe and the EU institutions.

She said that it is crucially important that Europe has been reliable and consisting of its support for Ukraine for 11 years, or since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and since then, she has the life that makes life more difficult and more.

While they often risk their health and even live in any form of resistance, they need to see that Europe sees and supports their fight.

“Resistance is always a bidirectional communication,” he says, explaining that people in Crimea demonstrate their resistance, are sending the signals not only to Ukraine, but also to kyiv’s international partners, who want to be part of Ukraine.

“They demonstrate that they are ready to resist, that they do not want this occupation. Even this act of resistance can be a unidirectional ticket for them,” says Kureshko, and adds that even the smallest sign of disagreement, for example, a “similar” or “restless” in social networks, is severely punished by Russia’s occupation authorities.

And that is why Ukraine needs more support, he says, “when kyiv was more active against Russian military facilities in Crimea occupied, we saw that the resistance was growing, it was becoming stronger and bigger, beer or crime.”

“If Ukraine, unfortunately, does not have the ability to take such active military actions, we must not expect resistance to the same level, Bee would be imprisoned or forced to leave.” “

‘Colonization’ or Crimea de Russia

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zenskyy, also appointed his head of the delegation of Estabul Talks, and his choice sends a strong and clear signal.

Rustem Umerov, Zenskyy’s Minister of Defense, is of Tartar origin of Crimea.

He was born in exile in Samarcanda in Uzbekistan, after the Soviet authorities uprooted and deported 200,000 tartars of Crimea de la Peninsula.

Just after the Soviet authorities carried out a massive campaign to rusify Crimea, trying to completely change the image and history of the Peninsula.

Umerov and his family finally returned to Crimea in 1991, after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Kuryshko told Euronews that what Russia is doing in Crimea is “colonization” and this is not the first time.

“This is not the first occupation of Crimea and not the first colonization,” says Kureshko, discrediting one of Russia’s biggest disinformation campaigns.

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Eleven years of occupation is a long time, admits.

“Imagine an 11 -year -old boy. This is an adult child with a shaped personality. Imagine that this child grew up in Crimea and only meets Crimea as occupied by Russia. Only in continental Ukraine, the crime of the Russians who have occupation,” Kuryshko said.

Kuryshko is also sure that Russia will hold on to him until the end “invest a lot in the temporarily occupied territories.”

She explains that after her first invasion of Ukraine, Russia implemented and expanded her 2014 techniques much faster in the territories she occupied since the beginning of the large -scale invasion in 2022.

“The reform of the education system, the Russian textbooks, the forced passport: all this has already happened and happened faster because Russia was prepared, had practiced and trained in the previously occupied territories,” Kuryshko concluded.

On Sunday, May 18, the tragic anniversary of the first step of Tartars of Crimea sent to the Central Asia from the Peninsula.

The Ukrainian Parliament has asked foreign governments and Parliament to recognize the deportation of 1944 of the Tartars of Crimea by the Soviet authorities as an act of genocide.