We’ll return to Crimea: Zelensky to Ukrainians on Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar people genocide

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Ukrainians on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide

Rubryka reports, referring to the Telegram of the OPU press service.

According to the President, on May 18, 1944, the Soviet authorities began the forced deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, from their only homeland.

The President stressed that more than half of the Crimean Tatar population had been killed during the deportation.

"After the terrible war that took place in Crimea, as well as all of Ukraine, as well as all of Europe, the entire nation was then put on the brink of survival…

Today we turn again to what was experienced then. And we are doing this in conditions where the descendants of that tyranny are not only trying to deprive Crimean Tatars of their homes for the second time, since 2014.

But when they want to take away the home of the entire multi-million Ukrainian people, all who live on our land," said Zelensky.