Already on 3 July 2023, the Government of Independent Tatarstan in exile issued an “Appeal from the Government of Independent Tatarstan on the inadmissibility of any participation of Tatarstan in the aggression against Ukraine, and on the inadmissibility of Tatarstan producing and transferring any types of weapons, including combat unmanned aerial vehicles to the Russian Federation.”
Our Appeal was a warning that the construction of such an important military-industrial facility in Tatarstan in the realities of war would become a legitimate target for destruction by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and would lead to the transfer of hostilities to the territory of Tatarstan.
This Appeal was distributed in various sources of information within Russia and collected thousands of views. Reactions varied from positive and understanding of the situation to outright misunderstanding, aggression and threats of physical violence against members of our Government. But the fact remains that the people of Tatarstan were warned on our behalf.
Only the Moscow Putin regime and the puppet Shaimiev-Minnikhanov government in Tatarstan are to blame for all the consequences, the people affected and the victims. Only they are responsible for the use of the resources of the occupied national republics, since they voluntarily participate in the war of aggression of imperial Moscow against a sovereign Ukraine, in which innocent civilians are killed and the civilian and energy infrastructure of Ukraine is destroyed.
The Government of Independent Tatarstan in exile is calling for today’s “small attack” by Ukrainian drones on the Shahed Iranian drone assembly plant in Yelabuga and the TANECO oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk to be an incentive for the people of Tatarstan to stop supporting Russia’s war against sovereign Ukraine, realize that the main enemy of the people of Tatarstan is the Moscow Kremlin, and take the path of fighting for the Independence of Tatarstan!
Only in Tatarstan, independent of Moscow, will the people be able to live prosperously and richly, and will not lose their sons in Moscow’s senseless wars for the Tatar people!
Sincerely!
Rafis Kashapov – Prime Minister of the government of independent Tatarstan in exile; Vil Mirzayanov – honorary adviser to the Government of Independent Tatarstan in exile;
Aida Abdrakhmanova – Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Independent Tatarstan in exile on national and religious issues;
Rais Mukhutdinov – Ambassador of the Government of Independent Tatarstan in exile to the Republic of Turkey;
Farit Zakiev – Chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC), Türkiye, Antalya.
