Russia to raid Crimean households searching for Ukrainian partisans

The National Resistance Center reported the information.

Russian special services were tasked with uncovering networks of Ukrainian resistance movement in Crimea. They will selectively raid apartments and houses of Crimeans, especially targeting Crimean Tatars.

Russia decided to resort to such measures having received data from a closed sociological study on the social and political situation in Crimea.

According to the study, even those residents who previously supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine are now apathetic towards Moscow, including Russians who were resettled in Crimea over the 8 years of its occupation.

Russian special services are intending to search through Crimeans’ basements, garages, phones and computers in order to find information that would indicate cooperation with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

"The National Resistance Center calls on the residents of temporally occupied territories to be vigilant, come up with plausible explanations, check your gadgets and “clean” your houses of any evidence. The Russian military and political leadership realizes that the Ukrainian partisans have played an important role in the recapture of Kherson. Therefore, they are trying to find new methods of combating the resistance movement," the Center said.