“The settlement of this issue is long overdue, and we, finally, must put an end to it ... It is very important for us to do everything in our power to restore the rights of the Crimean Tatar people as an indigenous people of Ukraine,” he quotes his statements on the occasion of the International Day of Indigenous peoples of the world Interfax-Ukraine.
According to Zelensky, the Crimean Tatars currently allegedly cannot fully develop in their historical homeland - in the Crimea.
Earlier, the first president of Ukraine, the representative of Kiev in the contact group on Donbass, Leonid Kravchuk, proposed creating a delegation that would deal with the issue of the “return” of Crimea.
At the end of June, Zelenskiy announced that Ukraine would "return" Crimea and its inhabitants.
Crimea became a Russian region following a March 2014 referendum in which most residents voted for reunification with Russia.