In Ukraine will be created of the Muslim battalion, said the Commissioner of the President on Affairs of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev, the Agency "" (QHA).

"the currently accepted conclusion about the creation of the Muslim battalion is subordinate to the Ministry of defense of Ukraine and which for the Most part will be deployed in the border with Crimea, Kherson region ", - he said, speaking at the II world Congress of Crimean Tatars in Ankara.

According to Jemilev, to serve in this division have already expressed a desire to "fairly large number" of the Chechens, Ingush, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks.

Muslim battalion planned to be used For monitoring " the passage of people and goods between the Crimea and Ukraine. And in the case of the return of the Crimea to the Ukraine To quell possible unrest in the Peninsula, said Dzhemilev, quoted by QHA.

in addition, the politician spoke in favor of compact residence of the Crimean Tatars, who settled in Ukraine in the Kherson region." For this project, of providing people with housing and jobs

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