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On the International Day of the Disappeared, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced the number of people who disappeared in the occupied Crimea: since the beginning of the Russian occupation at least 44 people have become kidnapping victims in the peninsula.
UA reports this citing the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to the report, the fate of 15 persons out of those 44 is still unknown.
Their names are: Valerii Vashchuk, Ivan Bondarets, Vasyl Chernysh, Timur Shaimardanov, Seyran Zinedinov, Islam Dzhepparov, Dzhevdet Islamov, Fedir Kostenko, Mukhtar Arislanov, Arsen Aliyev, Ervin Ibragimov, Eskender Apseliamov, Ruslan Haniev, Arlen Terekhov.
The vast majority of them are pro-Ukrainian activists who openly opposed the Russian occupation.
In addition, 258 people, including 67 servicemen and reservists, are believed to be missing in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
173 cases of enforced disappearances, imprisonment and kidnappings are currently being investigated in Ukraine. In the vast majority of cases, facts have been revealed that indicate the involvement of the Russian occupation administration in the disappearances.
Numerous cases of intimidation of relatives of missing persons and witnesses were also recorded.
To remind, according to Mustafa Dzhemilev, over the past seven years of occupation of the Crimea the Russian authorities managed to force about 30 thousand Crimean Tatars to leave their homes, and brought to Crimea some 600 thousand to 1,5 million Russians.
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