“RUSSIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION FOLLOWED BY THE FULL-SCALE INVASION IS ALL DUE TO IMPUNITY, WHICH BEGAN WITH CRIMEA… WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHERE IT MIGHT LEAD IN THE END.”

On 26 February Ukraine marks the Day of Resistance to Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol. Ten years ago on that day thousands of Crimean activists gathered outside the Crimean Parliament to show resistance against Russian occupation and in support of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. This resistance still continues today in different forms. In this interview, the Human Rights House Foundation conducted an interview with four well-known Crimean human rights defenders and representatives of the Human Rights House Crimea member organizations.

Alena Lunova is the Advocacy Director at the Human Rights Centre ZMINA.

Kateryna Petrova is the acting Head of the Regional Center for Human Rights

Olha Skrypnyk is Chair of the Board at the Crimean Human Rights Group.

Mariia Sulialina is the Head of the Center for Civic Education Almenda.

You can read interviews about the situation in Crimea over the last decade and their views on the future in English on the website of the Human Rights House Foundation.