Refugees from Donbass complain to Crimean media about poor reception
A year after the start of the war in Donbass and the first flows of refugees from Donbass, migrants were forgotten in Crimea. If last year their problems were dealt with by public organizations, officials, and government structures, today only separate groups of volunteers help them. This is stated in an article in the Crimean Telegraph newspaper.
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According to the publication, today all the problems of migrants are dealt with by the Federal Migration Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea, which must distribute refugees to other regions of Russia, since Crimea can no longer accept them since last year.
“Neither Crimean officials nor the leadership of the Federal Migration Service are thinking about housing people, although they are trying to pretend. So, in February, the Ministry of Emergency Situations moved the family into the dormitory of the chemical industry school in Armyansk. The very next day the director came to the refugees and said that they had been accommodated for two days. And he asked me to move out,” the publication notes.
But problems also arise for those who were already sent to mainland Russia a year ago. Thus, the Semeykin family, who fled from Gorlovka to Crimea, ended up in Buryatia, but there they encountered the reluctance of local authorities to help them with their problems.
“We were treated very badly. They took away my Ukrainian passports, but instead of status they gave me certificates of temporary asylum. And they are issued for a year. Now, the deadline expired in June, and what should we do next?” Evgeniy Semeikin is perplexed. As a result, the whole family returned to Crimea and now dreams of leaving for Rostov.
Currently, only the Federal Migration Service deals with refugees. According to unofficial information, the service is entering into contracts with the railway, and after that the refugees will be sent to other regions of Russia. But while the FMS is hesitating on this issue, social activists are helping the displaced.
“If a family has been in Crimea for a long time and is ready to leave, we buy them tickets and send them to the mainland. In Rostov, at the railway station, there is a temporary accommodation center, refugees are accepted there in any number and then they are resettled,” says Ekterina Gorelkina, chairman of the “Life in Your Hands” public movement.
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