Crimean Tatars have announced they are launching a battalion to help Ukrainian police patrol the region bordering annexed Crimea, Radio Free Europe has reported.
Lenur Islyamov—the leader of the Asker activist group that cut off Crimea’s electric supply in 2015, in protest of Russia’s annexation and treatment of the native Muslim Tatar population—is now preparing another move to shore up resistance to what he perceives as ongoing Russian aggression in the Kherson region bordering Crimea.
Asker plans on assisting patrols in Kherson, in anticipation of “informational bombardment by the Russian authorities,” seeking to destabilize Ukraine further.
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Source: Newsweek
