High-speed militarization, weapons lessons in primary school, a titanic 18-kilometer-long bridge to connect Russia… Crimea has changed a lot since the Russians took power in 2014.
In ten years, the Kremlin has carried out a real “Russification” of the peninsula, located in the south of Ukraine. The new civil and military infrastructures are also mixed with propaganda strategies to try to make us forget centuries of history. In kyiv, they are already planning a cognitive “de-occupation” once Crimea is reconquered. The word comes from Tamila Tasheva, Volodymyr Zelensky’s representative for Crimea.
Find our long video format on the L’Express website, and all our social networks, with the central analysis by Melinda Haring, researcher specializing in Ukraine at the Eurasia center of the Atlantic Council.