Crimea a springboard for attacks - Zelenskyy

This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an evening video message.

According to him, during the years of occupation, Russia turned Crimea into a large military prison camp, and tens of thousands of people became its victims.

"Crimea has become a springboard for attacks on the free territory of our country. The weak and insufficiently principled reaction to the occupation of Crimea in 2014 and in the following years became one of the prerequisites for the fact that Russian aggression was able to grow to such a scale. We will gradually restore justice to our Crimea," noted Zelenskyy.