Zelenskyi Explained How the Degradation of Russia Started, and How It Would End 

Mass terror after February 24 became the logical completion of the degradation, as the President said on August 23rd during the Crimean Platform summit.

"The degradation of Russia began with the seizure of Crimea. It started with terror against the Crimean Tatar people, the indigenous people of Crimea. With repression on religious grounds, which probably became the largest religious persecution in Europe in the XXI century, against the Crimean Muslim community", the President stressed.

According to him, There was also the expulsion from occupied Crimea of all ordinary people who said that Crimea is Ukraine, who were not afraid to defend Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian freedom in Crimea. 

Murders and torture – “we saw it all” - humiliation and looting - the invaders committed all this in Crimea and continue to commit all this since the first weeks after its shameful capture, Zelenskyi added.

"Mass terror after February 24 became the logical completion of the degradation of this state, which not so long ago was invited to the table with the G7 and which now competes for supremacy with the most brutal regimes of the past, responsible for genocides, wars of aggression and deportations", the Ukrainian leader emphasized.

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