RFE/RL: Ukraine charges Moscow has brought up to one million Russians into Crimea

Tartar activists Akhtem Chiygoz (R) and Ilmi Umerov (L) together with Mustafa Dzhemilev (C), the pro-Kiev leader of Crimea's Tatar community, arrive for a press conference in Kievs Boryspil airport upon arrival from Turkey on October 27, 2017. The two Crimean Tatar activists sentenced for their political activities by Russian authorities in the annexed peninsula arrived in Ukraine on October 27 after being released thanks to an apparent deal brokered by Turkey. / AFP PHOTO / Genya Savilov

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Russia has relocated up to 1 million people to the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea, according to Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s envoy for Crimean Tatar affairs.

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 Russia-backed separatists and pro-Kyiv groups clashing in the east and south of the country. AFP

Dzhemilev told Ukrinform on May 27 that Moscow is bringing “large numbers” of people from various regions of Russia to Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.