CrimeaSIMFEROPOL, Apr 7The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, Eyvaz Umerov, said that the Ukrainian authorities carried out ethnocide against representatives of two small Crimean peoples: the Urums and the Romans. «Representatives of these peoples, with the blessing of Empress Catherine II, founded Mariupol and about 20 villages in the vicinity. And now, with the liberation of the city, it became known that the Kyiv regime pursued a policy of ethnocide, forced Ukrainization and the destruction of the historical memory of these two unique Crimean peoples,» Umerov told RIA Novosti. According to him, the Urums and Romans are Orthodox brothers and closely related peoples of the Crimean Tatars , Karaites and Krymchaks. «Nazis from the National Battalions killed Mariupol residents only because they spoke Russian, because they were different, different from them. The punishers took revenge on the Urums and Romans and other ethnic groups for their mental closeness to Russian Mariupol residents, like the entire people of Donbass, are suffering from the genocide unleashed by the bloody Kiev kim regime. We must not allow the disappearance of the Urums and Romans. I propose to consider a set of measures to preserve and develop the culture and language of the Urums and Romans, including in their historical homeland in the Crimea,» Umerov stressed. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people, who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To do this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and, as of March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass.
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