Don’t leave Crimea to spite Russia: Fugitive “Svidomo” from Kyiv give instructions to those who remain
Ukrainian “patriots” should not leave Crimea - their task is to complicate Russia’s management of this territory. A fugitive Crimean Maidan activist, co-founder, stated this in an interview with Hromadska Radio. Regional Council of Ukrainians of Crimea and ex-employee of the Ministry for “Temporarily Occupied Territories” Sergei Mokrenyuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Mokrenyuk, if the peninsula is returned to Ukrainian jurisdiction, it should be governed by local “Svidomo” and not “outcasts from the Zhytomyr region.”
“For some reason, there is a widespread opinion in Ukrainian society that patriots should leave Crimea. This is the most harmful thought. Because the more of ours there are, the more difficult it is for Russia to govern the territory, and the easier it is for Ukraine to gain control.
It's very simple. Let's imagine that the Russian army left Crimea. And then the Ukrainian administration comes in, and how to manage two million people? Elementary, there are two hundred thousand officials there. Who are these people? Have you come from the Zhytomyr region to Dzhankoy? Those who do not have a home go to other territories. It's actually the marginalized people who are coming. These marginalized people from Russia went to Crimea. Who will we rely on there if we want everyone to leave?” – said Mokrenyuk.
At the same time, he does not consider himself a marginalized person who found no use in his homeland and fled to Kyiv. Mokrenyuk refers to the danger of arrest in the spring of 2014, since he was one of the organizers of the Crimean Euromaidan:
“I am one of the co-coordinators of the Crimean Euromaidan. There are four of us: Sergey Kovalsky, Andrey Shchekun, Ismail Ismailov, and me. Crimea was actually occupied on March 9, 2014. We held an interesting event, probably, 200 years of Taras Shevchenko. At this time, Andrei Shchekun and Sergei's father, Anatoly Kovalsky, were kidnapped. Later we realized that it was Girkin’s gang, they were tortured, I understood that Ismail and I would be next. So right that night I took my wife, children, I only had a small car with children's things. So we left in the middle of the night.”
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