Islyamov, convicted in Crimea, threatens Russia with war
Mejlis businessman Lenur Islyamov, sentenced in absentia in Crimea to 19 years, threatened daily to cause damage to the Russian peninsula and “squeeze out” the Russian world from Ukrainians.
He stated this on radio “Crimea,” funded by the US State Department. Realities,” reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Islyamov also advocated a military solution to the “Crimea problem.”
“I never wanted to sign up as a dissident and I never intended to be some kind of activist or anything else. I had absolutely no intention of doing this, but the Russian state has already made thousands of such people who have devoted their entire lives to fighting. And when they tell me that they caused damage - yes, all the time I live, I will cause damage to this state that seized my Crimea.
Every day I will squeeze everyone out of Crimea, little by little. And if it is possible, informationally, to squeeze out the Russian world in the heads of mainland Ukraine, in the heads of some citizens of Ukraine, which exists here in mainland Ukraine. It is through information and someday, if necessary, including through military means that we must resolve this conflict,” Islyamov said.
At the same time, in 2014, after the peninsula became part of Russia, Islyamov did not demonstrate his opposition, but took the position of Deputy Prime Minister in the new Crimean government
Let us recall that earlier the Supreme Court of Crimea found Lenur Islyamov, a Ukrainian businessman of Crimean origin and the owner of the Majlis TV channel ATR, guilty of organizing an energy blockade of the peninsula and sentenced him to 19 years of strict regime in absentia.
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