Ukrainian parliamentarian Mustafa Jemilev, who also served as the Ukrainian president's authorized representative for the Crimean Tatar people, has said that not a single mechanism for the protection of human rights is currently working in the Russia-occupied Crimea.

"If we talk about forms and opportunities for the protection of human rights in occupied territories, I can say that this is impossible. No measures will protect people's rights as long as there is occupation. Yesterday we spoke with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, and we talked about what can be done to protect the rights of people, but it turns out that it's almost impossible," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Jemilev noted that the Russian authorities do not allow independent international organizations to visit the occupied Crimea, but give access to the peninsula only to those "with whom there is an agreement on writing the material that Russia needs."

"If some delegations are allowed to enter [Crimea], this is done only in violation of the Ukrainian legislation. People in Crimea are in despair and are waiting for some action from us," he said.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, in turn, said that the rights of both the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians were totally violated in the occupied Crimea.

"But our response should be based on diplomatic and economic pressure, based on Ukrainian and international law. In this context, the union of Crimean politicians, the Crimean Prosecutor's Office and Ukrainian human rights organizations is a powerful response to massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea," he said.