The European Union has called on Russia to stop human rights violations in Crimea and does not recognize the illegal annexation of the peninsula by Russia, the EU Delegation to Ukraine has said.
“Today we remember the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars from their homeland. We remember all who suffered. The EU calls on Russia to put an end to the human rights violations in Crimea and does not recognize the illegal annexation of the peninsula by Russia,” it said on Twitter on May 18.
As reported, 76 years ago, on 18 May 1944, the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from the territory of their historic residence – Crimea – to distant areas of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation started by order of the State Defense Committee of the Soviet Union signed by its chairman Joseph Stalin.
