March 10, 2019
(Ukrinform) The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign, Affairs Pavlo Klimkin stated
that the militarization of the Donbas territories which are not under Ukraine’s
control, continues and in the next few years the number of Russian military
personnel may reach 50 thousand people, reports Ukrinform. “The militarization
of the Crimea has reached a certain limit, but it will continue. We know that
in the following years there will be almost 50 thousand Russian personnel [ in
the Crimea],” said Klimkin.
The Foreign
Minister recalled that Russia prepared the infrastructure of the annexed for
nuclear weapons. According to him, to a large extent, Russian expansion into
Syria and the Middle East comes precisely from the annexed Crimea. The UN
Monitoring Mission noted violations of human rights in Crimea from the
occupying Russian authorities. In particular, in the Crimea, religious rights
suffer, especially for the Crimean Tatars. Also, freedom of speech is limited
to the peninsula by Russia’s misuse of anti-terrorism legislation. There are
many restrictions for peaceful assemblies, in particular for Crimean Tatars. The internationally recognized Ukrainian
territory of Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in March of 2014 in
the wake of the Ukrainian revolution. The Kremlin has faced international condemnation
for its annexation of the Peninsula, leading many western countries to impose
economic sanctions against Russia. In the United Nations, only Afghanistan,
North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Syria recognize Crimea as a
legitimate federal subject of Russia
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