Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko believes that Crimea will be de-occupied and the aggressor country will be punished.
“The freedom-loving people has returned to their native Crimea, and we together were building an independent Ukraine, and now everyone understands that filling the Crimea’s autonomy with exclusively Russian content was a big mistake, and the price of such a miscalculation was too high,” Poroshenko said in Kyiv on May 18 during the events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People.
According to him, in 2014 on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the post-Soviet authoritarian Russia annexed the Ukrainian Crimea, and thousands of Crimean Tatars were again forced to leave their homes.
“The invaders are doing everything to further drive the freedom-loving people from their native land. What is it if not a new, undeclared, despicable deportation?” he said recalling that the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people are banned in Crimea, and arrests and torture of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars are taking place.
Poroshenko noted that Crimea will eventually return to Ukraine.
