Today, May 18, we celebrate the Day of Sorrow and Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People.

It was on this day that the totalitarian Soviet regime began the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.

The erasure of national identity is a tool of totalitarianism and a crime against future generations.

But people did not allow themselves to be deprived of history, language and self-determination.

The Embassy of Ukraine in Nigeria held a Memorial Day in vyshyvankas, a symbol of Ukrainian identity, the cultural code of the nation, its history, which the Soviet regime also failed to trample.

We remember.

No to totalitarianism.

No to invasion.

Crimea is Ukraine.