Ukraine has been protecting its sovereignty and territorial integrity for a long time: more than 9 years ago, in 2014, the Russian Federation illegally occupied Crimea and since then the peninsula has become a territory of lawlessness.
Yes, arrests, detentions, kidnappings, searches, murders are not inventions, but the realities of today. And since the start of a full-scale invasion, Russia has expanded its territory of terror and violates human rights and commits war crimes in the newly occupied territories of Ukraine.
Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we systematically monitored and recorded human rights violations in the occupied Crimea, and after February 24, 2022, we realized that we need to expand our geography. Therefore, we began to record violations of rights, war crimes in the Russian Federation and in the south of Ukraine (in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions).
In particular, the lawyers of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center have developed a questionnaire for documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Unfortunately, many people who have suffered from the actions of the Russian Federation do not see the point in fixing offenses, they say, it will not work.
The CTRC stresses the importance of documenting human rights violations and war crimes because it is a prerequisite for:
Bringing criminals to justice;
Compensation for harm caused by the criminal actions of Russia;
Restoration of historical justice.
It is important to note that sooner or later, Russia will be forced to pay compensation to all victims of the war precisely because of documenting violations of rights and war crimes. We have historical examples of successful reparations payments even after many years. So, for example, after the First World War, Germany was obliged to pay reparations in the amount of 132 billion gold marks. The country paid off this debt in full only in 2010.
At the same time, Germany paid reparations after the Second World War. The country reimbursed the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia $23 billion. It took Germany almost 90 years to do this!
Therefore, we urge all victims to fill out the questionnaire of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (follow the link and download the document) and send the completed file to:
The thief must be held accountable and be severely punished, but for this you need to record all his crimes!
If you have additional questions, you can contact the Crimean Tatar Resource Center:
email: [email protected]
tel. +38 067 343 74 54