More than 20 thousand Ukrainian citizens left Crimea over the year

More than twenty thousand Ukrainian citizens have migrated from Crimea over the past 12 months

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

The post says that official Russian statistics show a positive migration balance in Crimea of about two thousand people, but these are mainly labor migrants and residents of neighboring Russia who continue to move to Crimea. But, as noted by the Crimean branch of #LiberateCrimea, Crimeans who are citizens of Ukraine are leaving the occupied island en masse. As a result, in the new school year, almost ten thousand fewer students will sit at the desks of Crimean schools than last year.

"On the Avito website alone, 12,000 houses and 33,000 apartments are for sale in Crimea. The reasons are obvious - in the face of growing restrictions, threats and occupation, Crimeans who have Ukrainian citizenship prefer to look for a better life outside of Crimea," the statement said.

It is also said that mass migration of the indigenous population - Crimean Tatars - continues, leaving Crimea on a scale that is sensitive for the Crimean Tatar community: it is about thousands of people. Activists note that many are going to Germany and Turkey. For example, a quarter of all applicants who apply to the Consulate General of Ukraine in Istanbul to obtain Ukrainian documents come from Crimea. Over the past two and a half years, due to the full-scale war against Ukraine unleashed by Russia, the diasporas of Crimean Tatars in some European countries have grown significantly.

Earlier it was reported that since September 2022, 6 to 8 thousand Crimean Tatars have left Crimea to avoid being drafted into the Russian army.

It was also said that about 50 thousand Crimean Tatars have been forced to leave Crimea since 2014.