On the 77th anniversary of the deportation, the flag of the Crimean Tatar people was traditionally raised for the eighth time at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In the commemoration and the ceremony of raising the Crimean Tatar flag took part:

• Anton Korynevych – Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
• Volodymyr Bugrov – Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
• Darya Svyrydova – First Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
• Tamila Tasheva – Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

In May 1944, the Stalinist regime prepared and carried out a special operation of forced eviction of the indigenous people of the Crimea – the Crimean Tatars – by the NKVD-NKDB forces. During the eviction and in the first years after the deportation, almost half of the deportees – more than 238,500 people died.

Anton Korynevych: “Today we remember the victims of the terrible crime of the totalitarian system against the indigenous people – the Crimean Tatar People genocide. The deportation on May 18, 1944, deprived the entire nation of its home, its land. Today, as in 1944, the Crimean Tatar people are becoming the main object of repressions, systemic and mass violations of human rights, and persecution by the occupation administration of the Russian Federation. We are working to restore the historical rights of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, and we hope that the Crimean Tatars will be able to live freely on their own land in our Ukrainian Crimea”.