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On May 27, CrimeaSOS presented the ecological report "Environment of Crimea: Changes and Losses Over the Time of Occupation. Part 1. Destruction of the Environment." The report has been co-authored by members of the CrimeaSOS team and a number of Ukrainian ecologists. A short summary of our report is available below.

On May 27, CrimeaSOS will present the first part of our report, "Environment of Crimea: Changes and Losses Over the Time of Occupation." This part of the report focuses on the destruction of the environment in occupied Crimea. QuirimInfo spoke to one of the co-authors of this report, an ecologist Oleksii Vasyliuk. He named some of the most powerful factors of the destruction of Crimean nature caused by the Russian occupation. 

Russian state could use the amount of money spent to build the Kerch bridge to cure hundreds of thousands of sick children in Russia. Instead, the Russian government decided to build a bridge that harms the environment of the Black sea and kills its inhabitants. Why do ecologists call this bridge ‘a killer’? Read more in the article below.

In 1944 Soviet authorities deported 183 thousand Crimean Tatars from Crimea to Central Asia and other regions of the USSR. 12 thousand went to concentration camps, another 5 thousand people appeared in the Moscow coal enterprise as a "special workforce" (this was basically camp imprisonment). In just a moment, Soviet authorities crossed out the ethnic name "Crimean Tatars" from all official documents and normal lives. For many years Soviet propaganda stigmatized Crimean Tatars as "traitors"; the Soviet government refused to allow their repatriation to Crimea. 

On March 10th, 2021, two people disappeared in the occupied Crimea. Those were a Ukrainian activist from Alushta Yelyzaveta Pavlenko and a resident of Kryvyi Rih Vladyslav Yesypenko. 

In 2014 Taras Shevchenko's anti-imperial poetry has yet again proved its prophetic nature. Since the occupation, it became forbidden in Crimea to organize celebrations on March 9, the date of Shevchenko's birthday. This material will tell you how this date became a layered symbol in Crimea and how Ukrainian patriots were forced into the underground.

Starting from January 12, express testing for COVID-19 became available on the administrative border with Crimea. At that time, this service was only available to people who had a fever. Members of the CrimeaSOS headquarters in Kherson visited the checkpoints "Kalanchak" and "Chonhar" in order to find out the details.

Cape Mehanom near the town of Sudak has always been known for its crystal clear water, making it one of the favorite holiday destinations for Crimean residents. Besides, the cape is rich with Red Book species, which are rare not just for the territory of Ukraine but for the whole world. At this moment, this unique natural ecosystem faces a risk of destruction. This is because occupants chose this location to build an art-cluster “Tavrida.” This project is being conducted under the direct support of Vladimir Putin.