Zelensky: Russia's degradation began with the occupation of Crimea. Massive terror after February 24 is a logical completion

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russia's degradation began with the capture of Crimea in 2014, and the terror of the aggressor country after a full-scale invasion became its "logical end". He said this during a speech at the Crimean Platform Summit on Tuesday, August 23.

Zelensky recalled that the Russians repressed the Crimean Tatar people, persecuted the indigenous people of Ukraine on a religious basis, which became "perhaps the most large -scale religious persecution in Europe of the 21st century against the Crimean Muslim community. " Video of the day from the first weeks of capture of Crimea, Russian invaders kill, torture and commit looting on the peninsula, and later began to spread these crimes to the Donbas and other countries, the President said.

"Massive terror after February 24 became the logical end of the degradation of this state, which has been invited to the table with the Great Seven and now competing for the championship with the most cruel regimes of the past, responsible for genocides, invading wars and deportations," Zelensky stressed, - Zelensky stressed, "Zelensky said .

The head of state thanked everyone who did not silence about the atrocities of the Russian Federation and helped Ukraine, but "at the same time many were silent, tried not to notice what was happening in the Crimea. " According to him, this has become one of the key causes of everything that is happening in Ukraine and the world now. The Crimean Platform is the first major international negotiation platform of Ukraine in the de -occupation of Crimea.