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RFE/RL: Newly installed monument to Crimean Tatar WWII victims smashed

Published May 9, 2019 at 9:38 pm

Crimean Tatars flag waves at the ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiyivska Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2018.

Photo by Mykhailo Markiv

Unknown vandals on May 9 desecrated a memorial outside the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Crimea region to Crimean Tatars who died during World War II.

The Crimean Tatar community on May 9 published photographs of the monument, which consisted of two black marble tablets inscribed with the names of 64 local people – including 57 Crimean Tatars – who died during the war.