Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov announced 12 steps for the liberation of Crimea, developed by the NSDC staff with the involvement of specialists and experts.

“For the junk from Moscow, I would like to outline how Ukraine will liberate Crimea,” Danilov said.

12 steps

• In addition to prosecution for collaborationism and treason, a lustration mechanism will be developed that will allow determining the level of responsibility and degree of involvement of persons (citizens of Ukraine and residents of Crimea) who supported the occupation administration.

• With regard to civil servants, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers and other categories of persons who, since 2014, were in the service of the authorities of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense, etc., and after February 2014 worked in Russian occupation structures, are they subject to Ukrainian courts will determine whether they are criminally liable. But if not, they will be deprived of state pensions with a ban on further work in local self-government bodies of Ukraine.

• Russia will ensure the unconditional extradition of all persons suspected of treason and other criminal offenses, both citizens of Ukraine and citizens of Russia, involved in war crimes committed on the territory of our state in general and Crimea in particular.

• Propagandists – journalists, media and various experts who contributed to the establishment of occupation, militarization of children’s education and inciting hatred towards Ukraine, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and other nationalities, will be checked by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and, if necessary, international ones.

• Citizens of the Russian Federation, who illegally arrived to live on the Crimean Peninsula after February 2014, must immediately leave the territory of Ukraine within the deadline established by law.

• Agreements made under non-Ukrainian law after February 2014, including real estate transactions, will be considered null and void. The right of ownership remains with the citizens of Ukraine.

• The checkpoint in the city of Kerch in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be closed to ensure full freedom of navigation under the compensation program.

• A “detoxification” program will be implemented to neutralize the long-term effects of Russian propaganda on the public consciousness of part of the peninsula’s population.

• Using the experience of using effective methods of denazification of Germany in the 1940s, we will promote the participation of individual groups supporting Russia in the reconstruction works of destroyed Ukrainian cities, in the processes of exhumation and reburial of victims of Russian aggression.

• Creation of a database of crimes committed by the Russian Federation against citizens of Ukraine who resisted the occupation. Restoring the rights of Tatar activists in Ukraine and Crimea.

• Immediate release of all citizens of Ukraine, Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians persecuted by the Russian Federation for political reasons since 2014, with compensation for moral damage.

• The military ship, which asked the Ukrainian border guards to surrender and received the famous insult “Russian military ship, go to hell” in response, will become a public monument.