10.04.2025, 10:08

Due to illegal arrests in Crimea, 252 children of Kremlin prisoners are growing up without parental care

As a result of repressions and and illegal arrests in the occupied Crimea, 252 children were left without parental care. 16 of them were born after their fathers were detained.

About this said on her Facebook mumine Saliyeva, the wife of Kremlin prisoner Seyran Saliyeva

"Abdurrahman, son of Osman Abdurazakov, is already two years old, and he does not know his father at all. He he was born after his father's arrest, just like Seyit Osman, the son of Amet Suleymanov. He is already 5, and he thinks that his father is away on business and is about to return. 5-year-old Amalia was also born after the arrest of her father Raim Aivazov. She saw her father twice on long visits," writes Mumine Saliyeva writes.

According to the author of the children of Crimean Tatar political prisoners are in Simferopol, Dzhankoy, Bilohirsk, Feodosia districts, Old Crimea, Yalta, Alushta, the largest number - 100 children number - more than 100 children - in Bakhchisaray district.

As noted earlier in the The Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CTRC), mass searches have become a "systemic tool of intimidation" in the occupied Crimea. According to observations during the period of occupation of Crimea through March 2025, 399 people were recorded as being prosecuted in criminal "cases."

"Voice of Crimea" wrote that Russia is purposefully implementing a policy in the occupied territories of Ukraine the occupied territories of Ukraine a policy of destroying the national identity of children.

We also wrote that collaborators in Crimea approve the occupation methodology of teaching Crimean Tatar children in two languages - Russian and Crimean Tatar, ukrainian is not taught in the occupied territories.