Occupiers in Crimea hand summonses to at least 1,500 Crimean Tatars

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA —  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:22

At least 1,500 summonses were handed over to Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea, as the conscription campaign continues in Russia.

Source: Ukrinform, which cites Tamila Tasheva, the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea 

Quote from Tasheva: "We know of about at least 1,500 summonses handed over to Crimean Tatars. This was a mass distribution of summonses in places densely inhabited by Crimean Tatars, such as the 6th and 7th districts of Bakhchysarai, the villages of Strohanivka, Zuia, Saky, Azovske, Maiske, [and] Dobrivska valley".

Details: Tasheva says that the distribution of summonses covered a significant number of Crimean Tatars, disproportionate to their total number on the peninsula. Thus, according to the last population census, 250,000 representatives of the Crimean Tatar people lived in Crimea.

Tasheva emphasised that the current number of those conscripted in Crimea is uncertain.

Background: On 23 September, the self-styled "authorities" of the peninsula announced that men who travel outside Russian-occupied Crimea must obtain the appropriate permit from their respective military enlistment offices.

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