MISSION OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
IN THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA
On August 25, 2021 Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe with a Group of Parliamentarians from Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Georgia, as well as Representatives of Albania and Spain visited Kherson Region.
In particular, were awarded the Order of Merit III degree – Nariman Bilyalov (public activist, deputy chairman of the public organization “Vetan”, Vinnytsia), Abdureshit Dzhepparov (public activist, human rights activist in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol) and Volodymyr Dudka (Kremlin political prisoner). The Order of Princess Olga III degree – Alyona Luneva (human rights activist of the public organization “Human Rights Information Center”) and Mumine Saliyeva (public activist and wife of a Kremlin political prisoner).
As the President of Ukraine H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted in his speech:
“We are doing many things for the first time, so that the time when Ukraine was a great country was not the last. And so that the times when Crimea and Donbas were not occupied were not the last either. And a powerful country does not expect anyone to solve its problems. It holds the Crimea Platform, which brings together 46 foreign countries. We are fighting for our people there. Because it is possible to temporarily occupy territories, but it is impossible to occupy people’s love for Ukraine.
It is possible to create despair and force to receive passports, but it is impossible to passportize Ukrainian hearts. The fact that people in Donbas and Crimea are afraid to say it does not mean that they are afraid to think about it. And they will come back. Because we are a family. And the only thing that can divide us is a generously set table. At which we will definitely drink a toast together to the fact that we have become a powerful country”.
The work of the internal track of the Crimea platform also envisages the functioning of the office as a “Crimean hub” in Kyiv to combine the efforts of various displaced Crimean authorities and members of the Expert Network, as well as holding joint meetings for citizens, holding events on the topic of deoccupation and reintegration of Crimea with the participation of national and international experts.
Interview on the topic of deoccupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the role of the Inaugural Summit of the Crimea Platform and further steps of the state in this direction.
Today, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an interview to journalists from Crimea on the topic of deoccupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as the protection of Ukraine from potential threats from the side of Russian Federation.
“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an interview to Crimean journalists”
Illegal searches and detentions were carried out today: in Stroganivka, Simferopol district in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the house of local imam Raif Fevziev; in Ternivka, Balaklava district, Sevastopol, in the house of Jabbar Bekirov; in Kholmovka of the Bakhchisarai district in the house of Zaura Abdullayev and in Povorotne, Nakhimov district, Sevastopol in the house of Rustem Murasov and Rustem Tairov.