Putin’s partial mobilization forces Crimean Tatar men to flee Russian-occupied region, Ukrainian official says

 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization order has forced Tatar men to flee Russian-occupied Crimea, a presidential representative to Crimea said on Ukraine’s Parliament TV Sunday. 

“On the territory of the occupied Crimea, Russia focuses on the Crimean Tatars during the course of mobilization. In this way, Russia is trying to destroy the gene pool of the Crimean Tatars, who have not yet fully recovered after 1944 (deportations). Males are taken from the age of 18. People are forced to flee Crimea, which they have not done since 2014,” Tamila Tasheva, Ukraine’s presidential permanent representative in Crimea, said. 

Tasheva added, “Currently, thousands of Crimean Tatars, including their families, are leaving Crimea through the territory of Russia mostly for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan. Since Crimean Tatars do not have foreign passports, only internal Russian passports. Therefore, Crimean Tatars can go only to those countries where citizens of Russia do not need a visa.”

During his televised interview, Tasheva also advised for those in Crimea to avoid Russian or pro-Russian authorities as much as possible and recommended for those who would be drafted and sent to fight to surrender to Ukrainian forces.

History behind the Tartar population: Tasheva was making a reference to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation of the Tatar people in the midst of World War II. Some 200,000 Crimean Tatars had been forcibly deported by Stalin in 1944, in what the Ukrainian parliament has recognized as an act of genocide.

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