Members of the Mejlis and Ukronatsik started a squabble on TV over false autonomy
The representative of the Ukrainian nationalist party “Svoboda”, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Eduard Leonov, spoke out categorically against the creation of even a fake Ukrainian Crimean Tatar autonomy. When other participants in the program on the Majlis channel ATR began to accuse him of “Soviet thinking,” the “Svoboda” member made counter-accusations of collaboration.
“The collaboration of the Majlis, which agreed to participate in Aksenov’s government, did not help the Crimean Tatar people. There is no need to confuse narrow political issues within the political movements of the Crimean Tatars and ensuring the rights of every Crimean Tatar, who, first of all, needs the liberation of Crimea from the occupiers,” Leonov said.
He was supported by another nationalist - member of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Nikolai Kokhanovsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Before the program, I looked at the Crimean issue and saw a fairly large-scale collaboration between the Crimean Tatars and the occupiers. There were 11 Crimeans in my unit. Ten of them are ethnic Ukrainians and only one Crimean Tatar, who has never been to Crimea and came from Tashkent,” Kokhanovsky said.
In his opinion, the Crimean Tatars, unlike the Ukrainians, are not ready for armed resistance and an assault on the peninsula.
“According to Chubarov, they do not offer active resistance because there are few of them. And Ukrainians in Crimea are resisting. About 10 Ukrainians in FSB prisons are suffering not because they came out with posters, but because of the underground struggle,” Kokhanovsky said.
Activists of the Majlis, banned in Russia, responded by accusing Ukrainians of treason.
“Do you know how many Ukrainian armed forces, SBU, and police were in Crimea? There were no actions for armed resistance to the occupiers, counting on the support of the local population. I can’t say much now, because our people are there. No one went out to the delight of the occupiers,” said Mejlis leader Refat Chubarov.
He was supported by Akhtem Chiygoz, who was convicted in Russia for organizing mass riots.
“The entire government in Crimea practically handed him over. It was chosen by the Ukrainian people. We are still fighting today. Hundreds are in prison. I talked to them. Some, even in prison, continue to rent out and sell their homeland. I’m moving away from this because I saw quite a lot of freedom-loving citizens of Ukraine there,” Chiygoz said.
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