UK calls on Russia to stop conscription in occupied Crimea

The United Kingdom considers Russia’s decision on spring conscription in the occupied Crimea a shameless violation of international law and calls on the Kremlin to stop it immediately.

“Russia’s plans to conscript and illegally transfer 3,300 young Crimeans across an international border to Russia violates international law shamelessly. The UK calls on Russia to end its continued human rights abuses on Ukrainian territory immediately,” the UK’s Embassy in Ukraine posted on Twitter.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed its resolute protest over yet another conscription to military service by the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine - in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

According to the Ministry’s data, this spring it is planned to send almost 3,300 people for “military service” from the territory of the Crimean Peninsula. Majority of them are expected to serve beyond the Crimean Peninsula, in particular in the Southern Military District, whose military units and command are directly involved in carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine in Donbas.

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