Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Halya Coynash: Russian offensive against the Crimean Tatars
Vladimir Putin asserted that Russia's effective invasion of the Crimea was to protect people and save lives. The first death was of Reshat Ametov, a Crimean Tatar peacefully protesting against Russian annexation. Since then all deaths, disappearances and abductions have been of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian opponents of Russian rule.