Ukrainian band Antytila launches pre-sale of tickets for 2024 concert in occupied Crimean city of Yalta

The Ukrainian band Antytila has started the pre-sale of tickets for a stadium show in the temporarily occupied city of Yalta on the southern coast of Crimea on August 23, 2024.

The band reported this on Instagram.

"Summer 2024! Yes, you read it right. Antytila announces a concert in Crimea. In Ukrainian Crimea. We are opening pre-sale for the first big stadium show in Yalta," they said. The venue is Avangard Stadium. Tickets can be purchased here.

Yalta is the southern city in the occupied peninsula of Crimea that was illegally seized by Russian forces in 2014 and annexed after a sham referendum. Since then, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists have been persecuted by occupation authorities. According to data by NGO Free Crimea, 54,000 people has to flee their homes and become displace, but probably in reality, they are twice as many, reaching about 100,000.

"Antytila is confident that in the summer of 2024, we will all be able to gather in Yalta, Ukraine, freed from the Russian occupiers, and decorate the entire southern coast of Crimea with yellow and blue, modern Ukrainian music," they wrote.

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In August 2022, the Minister of Development of Communities, Territories, and Infrastructure of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said that after re-establishing the Ukrainian administration in Crimea, not only reintegration but also reconstruction would begin on the peninsula. Within the framework of this program, the ministry wants to make Crimea a part of the open European transport space.

The adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podoliak, said that Ukraine is already developing evacuation routes for residents of the currently occupied Crimea who will want to leave the peninsula during the active phase of its liberation.

In February of this year, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, stated that after the de-occupation of Crimea, Ukrainian veterans could get managerial positions.