At least 41 natives of the occupied Crimea, illegally conscripted by the Russian Federation for military service, died in the war against Ukraine, said Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea..

" According to our information, only from open sources, we think that these figures are higher, at least 72 funerals have recently taken place on the territory of the peninsula. From verified information, we know that 41 people are definitely from Crimea, that is, most likely they are citizens of Ukraine,"

She added that this is an international, war crime.. The occupying country does not have the right to call for military service, and even more so to send to war. Russia has conscripted at least 5,000 people to Crimea every year since 2014. After February 24, Russia began forced mobilization in the occupied territories of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions.

According to journalistic investigations and representative offices, about half of the Moskva cruiser was made up of conscripts, including those from Crimea..

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She noted that residents of the occupied Crimea, especially men of military age, are actively leaving. Also, citizens of the Russian Federation who illegally stayed in Crimea are trying to sell their property and are actively leaving Crimea.. Among them are prosecutors, judges, employees of the FSB, the Center for Combating Extremism.

“I won’t say that this is a mass exodus from Crimea, but they are quite actively leaving, including trying to sell their property,” she added..

Crimea became one of the springboards for the Russian attack on Ukraine.

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