17/02/2022 17:40

The occupying power of the Russian Federation continues to increase the military presence in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol

Regular military exercises, military service propaganda and calls to join the armed forces of the Russian Federation continue on the occupied peninsula.

In February 2022, the Russian military fired at the Opuk range using the Hail and Hurricane multiple rocket launchers. The naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation worked out the search and destruction of the landing detachment of ships in case of war for the occupied Crimea. The air force and navy conducted training to search for and track a conventional enemy submarine. Training of naval aviation forces and coastal troops of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is carried out in preparation for the planned naval training and scheduled flight of units of missile forces and artillery of the Air Defense Corps.

It became known that the occupying state intends to equip a new Old Crimean range on the temporarily occupied peninsula and in 2022 to rearm several airborne assault and artillery units with modern equipment.

Continuing militarization of the peninsula, the Russian Federation violates international humanitarian law, including the IV Geneva Convention, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UN General Assembly Resolutions, including № 76/70 "The problem of militarization of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol (Ukraine) Of the Seas of Azov ", adopted on December 9, 2021, to prevent the increase of military presence in the Crimea.

The Commissioner calls on our international partners to increase pressure on the Russian Federation, as the occupying country, to fulfill its obligations under international humanitarian law and the immediate liberation of the occupied Ukrainian territories and an end to violations of international law."