"Crimea is mine!": the occupiers opened thousands of cases for opposing the war on the peninsula

Repressions have intensified in the occupied Crimea. Despite this, the resistance on the peninsula does not fade away: Crimeans continue to express their disagreement with the war in everyday life.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

The atmosphere of fear and control, similar to the Soviet one, remains on the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula. People are fined, detained and tried for anti-war statements or even hints of disagreement with the Kremlin's policies - often after being denounced by ordinary passers-by or employees of shops, hospitals, and transportation.

Residents of the peninsula who oppose a full-scale war record their sentiments in social media posts, graffiti, tattoos, clothing items, and conversations. Such actions become grounds for prosecution.

For example, a resident of Kirovsky district was fined 30 thousand rubles by a court for words spoken in a hospital ward. Another Crimean was fined 50 thousand for making anti-war remarks on a train.

After the denunciation of Anatoliy Golyakovich, he was detained by the employees of the Center for Countering Extremism in Alushta. During the detention, they asked him whose Crimea was, to which the man replied in Ukrainian: "Crimea is mine!".

As a result, a Russian-controlled court in Alushta sentenced him to 15 days in jail and fined him 30 thousand rubles.

According to the Representative Office of the President of Ukraine in the ARC, more than 1,300 cases have already been registered on the peninsula under the article"discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation." In most cases, these are fines, although there are also administrative arrests. Experts believe that these cases have signs of politically motivated persecution, and that the trials are conducted in violation of human rights.

At the same time, despite the repression, the residents of the peninsula continue to resist and preserve their Ukrainian identity, language and culture. The Presidential Mission emphasizes that this daily resistance is the path to the future liberation of the peninsula.

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Kremlin's repressive machine persecutes any manifestation of Ukrainian identity - from comments on social media to participation in human rights initiatives. For more than two years now, the law on "discrediting the Russian army" has been in effect on the peninsula: people are searched, fined, arrested and imprisoned for their words, songs or publications.

Анна Бальчінос