SIMFEROPOL, April 16. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s Crimean residents support residents in the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and other Ukrainian cities against whom “the Kiev junta” had dispatched troops and gunmen, acting Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov told news agency CrimeaInform on Wednesday.

“Instead of dialogue with their people illegal authorities in Kiev have dispatched troops and gunmen they control to suppress a peaceful protest of residents in southeast Ukraine,” Aksyonov said.

He said with confidence that “people will give a proper assessment to these criminal actions of Kiev junta backing on Nazi order and ideology.”

“We give full moral support to residents of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Donetsk and other cities, where people protect their rights and freedom today,” the acting Crimean head said, noting that Crimean residents were also prepared “to give needed material aid and receive families.”

“We will not leave you in trouble! Crimea succeeded to protect themselves from the Nazis, I am convinced that southeast Ukraine will manage to do the same,” Aksyonov said in conclusion.