Crimea Platform Expert Network

Crimea Platform Expert Network

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Frank Peter Wilde, a German stylist, designer, and mentor to Crimean political prisoner Bohdan Ziza, has once again reminded the public of the illegal imprison of the Ukrainian artist and activist.
#FreeCrimeanPrisoners
https://t.co/nyMO74i9Oh

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣At least 27 Ukrainian media professionals from Crimea, Kherson & Zaporizhzhia are behind bars in RU & TOT, facing abuse, torture & isolation.

@crimeahrg1 documents every case & demands their release. Share their stories!

#JournalistDay
https://t.co/HNrAcWBp2k

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣185 Ukrainian defenders have been released from Russian captivity. In addition, one Ukrainian civilian, who had been held by the Russians since 2022, has also been brought back home.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Another 185 Ukrainian defenders are returning home today from Russian captivity. One civilian is also returning along with the defenders. They are warriors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine – privates, sergeants, and officers. They defended our state in Mariupol and at Azovstal, as well as in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kyiv, and Kursk sectors. Among them are those returning after years in Russian captivity, where they had been held since 2022.

I thank everyone who makes this possible: the team working on exchanges and our partners. And special gratitude to the warriors who replenish our exchange fund – who, through their strength and results on the frontline, ensure the return of our people home. The work continues. The return of our people is a constant priority for Ukraine. Every day, we are working to free every Ukrainian man and woman from captivity.

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Marites Danguilan Vitug, one of the most prominent journalists in the Philippines and a mentor to political prisoner Ernes Ametov, congratulated him on his birthday.

#FreeCrimeanPrisoners

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟪The situation in occupied Crimea continues to worsen, as discussed with @UNESCO Antenna.

@crimeahrg1 & @expertnetworkCP expert Olha Skripnik highlighted cases of imprisoned journalists in Crimea, Kherson & Zaporizhzhia regions.

More: https://t.co/VPSUu2HQvP
#CrimeaIsUkraine

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟪To liberate occupied Crimea, Ukraine must isolate it and make it impossible for Russians to remain on the peninsula, stated Ben Hodges, former Commander of the United States Army Europe: https://t.co/MvfMJcXwNG

#CrimeaIsUkraine

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣The event was attended by Permanent Representative Olha Kuryshko, Head of the UNESCO Antenna in Ukraine Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, as well as human rights defenders and experts working on Crimea-related issues.

#CrimeaIsUkraine

[Crimea Platform @crimeaplatform]

The Mission Hosted a Meeting Between Experts and UNESCO Representatives in Ukraine

Read more: https://t.co/w0IEZORRHz

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣@crimeahrg1 submitted to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the Input regarding the impact of disinformation on the enjoyment of cultural rights in situations of armed conflicts: https://t.co/xxDU1vC6h1

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

We are grateful to Latvia for its unwavering support!

[Latvia Mission to the UN | #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 @LatviaUN_NY]

🇱🇻 Latvia’s message is clear: Russia started this war in 2014. Russia can end it.

Leave Luhansk. 🇺🇦 Leave Donetsk. 🇺🇦Leave Sevastopol. 🇺🇦 Leave Mariupol. 🇺🇦

Let the Ukrainian people live in peace as they did before.

Unconditional ceasefire is the first step to achieve a just and lasting peace in line with the UN Charter. 🇺🇳

Full 🇱🇻 statement: https://t.co/Qog2aBZb67

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣The Russian cargo ship PANORMITIS is returning to the Black Sea after failed attempts to unload grain in Israel and Turkey. The vessel is suspected of carrying #stolengrain from the occupied ports of Berdiansk and Kerch.

[Катерина Яресько @kattyfun1]

PANORMITIS (IMO: 9445021) увійшов в Дарданели. Наш прогноз - судно повертається в рф і вивантажить партію зерна в Кавказі або Новоросійську.
Місяць тому, 25 квітня 2026, ми повідомили про PANORMITIS, що йде в Хайфу з зерном, вивезеним з окупованого Бердянську. Ізраїльський агротрейдер відмовився від цієї партії зерна.Після цього балкер намагався розвантажитися в турецькому Іскендеруні, також безуспішно.
Повернення судна в Чорне море означатиме, що скомпроментовану партію зерна спробують віддати комусь іншому.
Будемо спостерігати 🧐

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Since 2014 & 2022, RU has tried to crush all informational resistance in occupied 🇺🇦 territories.

How does RU target pro-UA voices? What is their propaganda strategy?

Iryna Siedova (@crimeahrg1) unpacks this on @HromadskeRadio: https://t.co/ivAFtx4VQI

#CrimeaIsUkraine

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Since occupying Crimea, RU has issued over 1,730 archaeological permits, mostly for illegal excavations.

Daryna Pidhorna (Raphael Lemkin Society, @expertnetworkCP) shared these figures on @HromadskeRadio: https://t.co/UhM0Tr79z9

#CrimeaIsUkraine
#CulturalHeritage

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Maryna Danyliuk-Yarmolaieva sits down with expert Mykhailo Gonchar to break down the energy war against RU:
▪️Refinery strikes & fuel crisis;
▪️Shadow fleet & oil logistics;
▪️Why oil refining is the Achilles' heel of RU's war economy.

Watch here: https://t.co/0HiAtn9DeC

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Mariusz Kamiński, MEP, former Polish Interior Minister, and mentor to 62-year-old Crimean political prisoner Azamat Eyupov, reminded about the fate of the Crimean Tatars, who survived genocide under Imperial and Soviet Russia.

#FreeCrimeanPrisoners

[Mariusz Kamiński @Kaminski_M_]

Dziś przed rozpoczęciem sesji PE w Strasburgu przypominamy o losie Tatarów krymskich, którzy doświadczyli ludobójstwa ze strony carskiej i sowieckiej Rosji. Także obecna, putinowska Rosja, okupująca Krym od 2014 roku kontynuuje represje wymierzone w rdzenną ludność. Wśród represjonowanych jest Azamat Eiu­pov, który protestował przeciwko rosyjskiemu imperializmowi na Placu Czerwonym w Moskwie, za co skazano go na 17 lat więzienia.

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Member of the European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk, who is a mentor to the illegally imprisoned Crimean Tymur Ibrahimov, has recorded a message for the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide.
#FreeCrimeanPrisoners

https://t.co/dpAft10VVO

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣May 18, 2026 marks the 82nd anniversary of the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatar people – one of the most brutal crimes of the Stalinist totalitarian regime and an act of genocide against the indigenous people of Crimea.

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

May 18, 2026 marks the 82nd anniversary of the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatar people – one of the most brutal crimes of the Stalinist totalitarian regime and an act of genocide against the indigenous people of Crimea.

In May 1944, under the false pretext of alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Soviet regime carried out a deliberate act aimed at destroying the Crimean Tatar people as a national community – depriving them of their homeland, language, culture, traditions, and historical memory.

Ukraine has recognized the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an act of genocide. We are grateful to Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, and the Netherlands for adopting similar decisions, restoring historical justice and honoring the memory of the victims of this crime. We call on other countries to join the international recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

Following the beginning of Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, the occupying authorities continued the persecution and discrimination against Crimean Tatars who remained in their homeland. The ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, fabricated criminal cases, forced passportization, pressure on religious communities, and the creation of unbearable living conditions are all modern forms of Russia’s forced displacement of Ukraine’s indigenous people from their land. Such actions constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and the international legal obligations of the occupying state.

Ukraine honors the memory of all victims of the deportation and expresses deep respect for the Crimean Tatar people, who, despite decades of repression, preserved their national identity, culture, language, and unwavering aspiration for freedom and justice.

We call on the international community to strengthen consolidated political, diplomatic, sanctions, and legal pressure on the Russian Federation in order to stop human rights violations in temporarily occupied Crimea, secure the release of all unlawfully detained persons, ensure the protection of the rights of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.

We demand that Russia immediately cease all forms of repression against Crimean Tatars, revoke the illegal ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, release all political prisoners, and comply with its international obligations as an occupying state.

The memory of the 1944 tragedy remains an inseparable part of our shared history and a warning to the world about the dangers of impunity for totalitarian regimes. Restoring justice, protecting human rights, de-occupying Crimea, and ensuring the return of the Crimean Tatar people to life in freedom on their native land remain our common tasks.

Crimea is Ukraine.

Qırım – Ukrainadır.

Qırım serbest olacaq!

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions: https://t.co/GMD1T0wOCo

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

On the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, Ukraine honours the memory of millions of people murdered by the Soviet totalitarian regime.

Mass arrests, torture, executions without trial, deportations, and persecution for political reasons became tragedies for generations of Ukrainians. Bykivnia, Demianiv Laz, Piatykhatky, Rutchenkove Field, and dozens of other burial sites across Ukraine and beyond its borders stand as evidence of these tragedies.

Today, Russia is repeating these same crimes – filtration camps, forced deportations, torture, and the killing of civilians – in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The aggressor state continues the methods of the Soviet regime that should have remained in the past – and it must be held fully accountable for them.

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣Venezuelan human rights lawyer Tamara Suju, mentor to political prisoner Iryna Horobtsova, sends her B-day greetings.

This is part of the advocacy mentorship initiative launched by @MFA_Ukraine, joined by @ppu_gov_ua and 🇺🇦 human rights organizations.

#FreeCrimeanPrisoners

[Tamara Suju @TAMARA_SUJU]

#Ukraine #Russia. She is #IrynaHorobtsova, a Ukrainian political prisoner kidnapped by Vladimir Putin. My goddaughter in the #SponsorAPoliticalPrisonerOfTheWorld campaign by the @caslainstitute.

Iryna turned 41 on May 13, the same day that, four years ago, Russian soldiers arrived at her home, searched her apartment, and took her away, telling her parents that she was being taken for questioning.

During the Russian occupation of Kherson, among other things, Iryna helped the local hospital: she transported doctors from remote areas, searched for and delivered food, medicines, and bandages, and brought medication to critically ill patients in remote settlements of the Kherson region. She also participated in peaceful protests against the Russian occupation in Kherson and posted photos of them on social media.

After her abduction, Iryna’s parents began contacting the occupation authorities and discovered that she had been taken to Crimea. For some time, her exact whereabouts were unknown, until a Crimean human rights defender contacted by Iryna Horobtsova’s relatives discovered that she was being held in Detention Center No. 1 in Simferopol.

Later, the lawyer learned from the Russian FSB that Iryna had allegedly opposed the so-called “special military operation,” which was the reason for her detention. Iryna was imprisoned under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Espionage”) for a period of 10.6 years.

In the summer of 2025, Iryna wrote to her parents saying that she was working in a prison sewing workshop as part of the forced labor system and that she was being held in a cell designed for 45 women.

Iryna’s family currently has no information about her physical or mental condition. They have not seen her for four years.

Iryna needs medical attention. Before her arrest, she had been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. This condition requires constant medical supervision, which is not provided in Russian prisons.

#FreeIrynaHorobtsova
#SponsorAPoliticalPrisonerOfTheWorld

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣A Haaretz investigation reveals how grain stolen from Ukraine’s occupied territories is being sold to Israel. The profits from this shadow operation are used to finance Putin’s war machine: https://t.co/9YPMfrDjpV

#UkrainianGrain

[Crimea Platform Expert Network @expertnetworkCP]

🟣German historian & mentor to Appaz Kurtamet, Franziska Davies on RU’s tactics:
▪️Distracting from Crimea’s annexation by demonizing Ukraine since 2014;
▪️History repeats: occupation in Ukraine today means genocide, just as in WWII.
https://t.co/wFN6JkdwQf
#FreeCrimeanPrisoners