The Problem of Ukrainian Identity Preservation in the Occupied Crimea in the Conditions of Large-Scale Russian Aggression Against Ukraine (February 2022 – Beginning 2023)
Journal: Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2023

The article analyses the impact of russia's large-scale aggression in February 2022 — spring 2023 on preserving Ukrainian civil and ethnic identities in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Since the beginning of the war in 2014, the occupying state has pursued a policy aimed at discriminating against the ethnic Ukrainian community of Crimea and the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, eradicating Ukrainian civil and ethnic identities, as part of a plan to destroy the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian n