Dzhemilev warns that Crimea may turn into a deserted peninsula
Mustafa Dzemilev, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars and an MP from the Petro Poroshenko faction said on 112 Ukraine TV that the retaking of the Crimea through military force would entail ethnic cleansing and make the peninsula uninhabitable.
"We very much hope that the sanctions imposed against the occupier will be strengthened and that it will force him to leave the occupied territories. We now see the other way, the military way, as hopeless. This would entail ethnic cleansing. And if military action unfolds there, the Crimea might become a deserted peninsula," Dzhemilev said.
He also noted that the human rights situation is getting worse in occupied the Crimea and that many Crimean Tatars want to leave the peninsula.
"We barely stop people from leaving the Crimea because it is the strategy of the occupiers to make Crimean Tatars leave. This also applies to pro-Ukrainian people." Dzhemilev added.
Previously, Dzhemilev revealed to the public that Russia has placed nuclear weapons in the Crimea. He spoke of six warheads, as well as the seventy thousand Russian troops on the peninsula.