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UkrInform: Dzhemilev- Pro-Ukrainian population being squeezed out of Crimea

Published Oct. 31, 2017 at 7:38 pm

Mustafa Dzhemilev, historical leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and former Soviet dissident speaks to journalists during his interview for AFP in Kyiv on May 6, 2014. Violence has escalated in Ukraine in recent days with pro-Russian and pro-Kiev groups clashing in the east and south of the country. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY

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Russia has delivered about 250,000 inhabitants of Donbas and the same number of Russians in the occupied Crimea to squeeze out the indigenous population.

Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev said this at the briefing on October 31, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.