The allies asked Kiev to “do not cause Russia” during the annexation of Crimea, says the leader of Mejlis to “Euronews”
When Russia has invaded Ukraine For the first time and Moscow soldiers entered Crimea in 2014, foreign partners of Ukraine They asked the Crimea authorities not to “cause In Russia, “the president of Crimea Mejlis Tararo told” Euronews “, rejecting Donald Trump’s claims that Ukraine did not fight for her and, instead, instead “He gave Russia without shooting.”
“All our partners and allies at that time said this We shouldn’t cause RussiaThat, together with the Ukrainian state, they would certainly find ways and ways to solve this crisis. I’m quoting what they told me When I was busy in Crimea, “said Refat Chubarov.
Chubarov recalled that he spoke with ambassadors of different countries almost every day and almost everyone told him that “they expected that the Tartars of Crimea They would not have caused the Russian military. “” Because then there would be pogrom, they would be very tragic events and They could not help civilians“Remember they told him.
After the annexation of Crimea in March Since 2014, Moscow has declared Mejlis, the only authorized representative and executive body of the Tararo people of Crimea, extremist organization e his activities in Russia prohibited and in Crimea occupied by Russia. Shortly after, Chubarov was forced to leave the Black Sea Peninsula.
In 2021, A court imposed by Moscow sentenced him to six years of the prison based on the accusations invented to organize mass disorders in 2014 and appeal to “violate the integrity of Russia”, The expression used by the Kremlin to describe At the Crimean Tartaros which fiercely opposed the annexation.
“Those who reproach us do not resist should remember the cowardly position of their states, who have acted as a guarantee of the Ukrainian state security As part of the Memorandum of Budapest, “he said to” Euronews “, referring to the United States as one of the signatories of the Memorandum.
Signing the Memorandum of Budapest, Ukraine has resigned from its nuclear weaponshoping that other signatories protect the country. “But they were afraid, and now they reproach us that they have not been able to deal with a nuclear power, permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. We are reproached for having failed,” he explained.
“At that time, not only and not so much the Ukrainian state failed, but the world failed when the aggression of a nuclear state stopswho is permanent member of the United Nations Security Council “.
“Great lack of respect” for the dead
Another declaration by the President of the United States, who raged and shocked the Ukrainians and Crimean Tartars, is that the peninsula was “delivered to Russia without shooting”. Chubarov describes it as “great respect To the Ukrainian military, who died in the first days of employment. “
“In the months following employment, in May and June, our young people were kidnapped by force. Later we find some Killed, to the others to date we do not find them, we don’t know where they are, “he said.” Crimea was taken without shooting A single blow or without a single victim is simply lacking respect for people who were in that situation and admit their ignorance of those events. “
In the meantime, Russia has not changed its plans to occupy all Ukraine, according to Chubarov. However, since Moscow has not been able to reach it for more than three years from the large -scale invasion “,Russia will cling to Crimea until the end Since Putin needs Crimea as a reinsurance for Russian society to calm people, since Russia has not been able to get anything more than three years. “
“If the President of the United States Somehow it officially calls the Russian territory of Crimea, it would be a great excuse to get out of the mess in which it is involved, and would personally present it to the Russian society as a great victory, “he added. This would strengthen only the Moscow regime And he would not lead to peace, he concluded Chubarov.
