To recognize the Russian Federation - a terrorist state, and its political and military leadership - as international criminals
 
Now for the fourth day in a row, the Russian Armed Forces, who started a full-scale invasion of the mainland portion of Ukraine in the morning of February 24th, 2022: have been bombarding Ukrainian cities, airports, destroying infrastructure sites, communication facilities, civilian houses, shooting at cars and buses with civilians.
 
All regions of Ukraine are being attacked, most mass-scale and damaging strikes are being carried out in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mariupol, Odesa among other Ukrainian cities. The cities were being struck with multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.
 
With the entire international community watching, the Fascist-Putinist regime organized a true humanitarian disaster in peaceful and democratic Ukraine. Whilst Russia also uses Ukrainian territories that it occupied in 2014 as a launchpad for its larger-scale invasion of mainland Ukraine - namely Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, and distinct parts of the Donbas region.
 
Despite all these losses and suffering that were caused by an expanded aggression from Putin’s Russia, these days crystalized Ukraine as a political nation, which turned out to be an undefeated fortified wall in the face of a Russian incursion. In the ranks of Ukrainian Armed Forces and in the Territorial Defense Forces together with representatives from different nations, attending to their civil duties are also crimean tatars.
 
We are enthralled by the courage, bravery, commitment, and patriotism of the Ukrainian civil society.
 
Special gratitude should also go out to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukrainian Parliament, Cabinet of Ministers, Border Guards, National Guard, Territorial Defense Forces, Volunteers, each citizen, who took up arms to defend Ukraine in these difficult times.
 
We are incredibly proud of every single Crimean native, every single one of those sons and daughters of the Crimean-Tatar people who are opposing armed Russian bandits that infringed upon Ukrainian territory.
 
Given the situation that arose due to the full-scale war, which was pushed on us by Russia, Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people reformatted its functioning in accordance with new challenges and people’s needs.
 
Currently, members of Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people, who are based and operate out of the territory of mainland Ukraine are located in various regions and large cities of Ukraine, including Kyiv and Lviv, where they are performing and carrying out their functions and duties.
 
Meanwhile, the city of Lviv hosts the coordination headquarters of the Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people, where all the work is planned and coordinated, including aiding the citizens of Ukraine - women with children and the elderly, which have arrived to western Ukrainian regions from regions where active military operations are taking place.
 
Through the efforts of leadership and journalists of the Crimean-Tatar TV channel ATR, we provide its constant streaming from the city of Lviv.
 
On the base of the Lviv Territorial Defense, a Crimean unit was formed, the personnel for which is drawn from Ukrainian citizens who were forced to leave Crimea that was temporarily annexed by the Russian Federation.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people is encouraging all those Crimean-Tatars that are in the military reserve to actively join the ranks of the Territorial Defense at the place of their residence or their current location.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people together with the leadership of the Crimean-Tatar organizations in Poland, Romania, and Turkey are coordinating actions in regards to helping Crimean-Tatar refugees onto the territories of the aforementioned countries.
 
However, any urgent actions that the Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people takes given the humanitarian disaster caused by the aggression of the Russian Federation, are no match to and cannot eliminate the misfortune and suffering of a tremendous amount of people, whom the war forced to flee their homes.
 
Expressing gratitude to heads and leaders of states, parliaments of countries, international organizations, a tremendous number of politicians that are known worldwide, fighters for human rights, poets, spiritual people, who have all expressed their support for Ukraine, and with the goal of immediately forcing the Russian Federation to halt their war on the territory of Ukraine and freeing the territory that it is occupying, including the Autonomous Region of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as separate parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people is encouraging the international community to recognize the Russian Federation - as a terrorist state, and its military-political leadership - international criminals.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people is encouraging NATO, the U.S., and the EU to close the sky over Ukraine and establish a complete embargo and supply of Oil from Russia.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people as the highest representative authority of the Crimean-Tatar people, which believes in Islam, is asking the heads of states - members of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to seize any forms of relationships with the Russian Federation or cooperation with military war criminals, that are heading up this terrorist state.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people is encouraging leaders of member-states of the organization of Turkish states to chastise the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and demand that the criminal Putin immediately halt the military operations against Ukraine and free the occupied Ukrainian territories, including the Autonomous Region of Crimea and city of Sevastopol.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people supports the Ukrainian Parliament’s initiative regarding gathering a United Nations General Assembly Tribunal to scrutinize the crimes of the Putin regime against Ukraine, Georgia, and other countries.
 
Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people is offering each soldier of the Russian Army who stepped onto Ukrainian soil to immediately put down their arms and give in to the official government of Ukraine.
 
*(Taken under emergency mode functioning of the Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people, which was established on April 26, 2016).
 
Head of Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people                                                                                      Refat Chubarov
 
Kyiv - Lviv

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