The ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea is in March. During the invasion of the peninsula by Russian forces, many Crimean Tatars were forced to leave their homes, including Ernest Suleimanov and his family. They left for Warsaw and opened a restaurant there called Crimea in front of the Polish embassy for Russia.
Since September 21st, Russia has been conducting out what it calls to as a partial mobilisation, and citizens of the Crimean peninsula that it has annexed are being enrolled to fight. However, according to human rights advocates, Crimean Tatar natives are more frequently conscripted.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a native of the industrial southeastern city of Kriviy Rih, carried every region of Ukraine but Lviv in the west, a cradle of Ukrainian nationalism where Poroshenko beat him by nearly 30 percent.