"There are not and cannot be any "beaches", "tourist zones" and other fictitious signs of "peaceful life" in #Crimea" - Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President (x.com)

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[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

How much internal migration between Crimea and other regions has there been? The population of Crima has hovered around 2 million for decades.

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, the true scale of the internal migration is hard to gauge because Russia is Russia, but in classic fashion there's likely been quite a bit of forced migration but could be as many as 800,000 to 1,000,000 people who have been "brought" into Crimea one way or another and a number of native Ukrainians and Tatars have been forcibly relocated.

Edit: and I found one estimate putting the number of internally displaced Crimeans in Ukraine at 20,000 – 100,000 (pg. 2), but another estimate had an upper limit of 200,000