Reshat Ametov is the first victim of Russian occupants in Crimea. 10 years ago, on March 3, 2014, Reshat Ametov was kidnapped by unknown persons in camouflage in the center of Simferopol, where he was holding a solo picket against the occupation of Crimea. The body of a man was found on March 15 in a field in the village of Zemlyanychne, Bilohirsk district, with stab wounds in the left eye socket and numerous other bodily injuries. His head was tied with tape, and his hands were handcuffed. He left behind three young children.
In April of the same year, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Department of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea opened a criminal case into the murder of Reshat Ametov. In 2015, the case was suspended. The investigation has not identified the persons involved in the murder of Reshat Ametov.
Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev noted that this “case is practically closed. No one is investigating it. Because, let’s say, everything points to the fact that it was an order of the leaders of the “self-defence”. The executor was the ‘self-defence’, and the order was given, I think, by the first persons who head this ‘Republic'”. According to Bariiev, Reshat Ametov is a symbol of the 2014 struggle for the integrity of Ukraine against Russian aggression.
In May 2017, the 5th President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on awarding the title “Hero of Ukraine’ to Reshat Ametov.