Russian revanchism gave birth to the brutal war that is now ongoing against Ukraine ten years ago, during the annexation of Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, speaking via video link at the Forum "26-2-14. The war began in Crimea."

"It was when I felt that the world was capable of turning a blind eye to such crimes, to such annexations, to such mockery of people whose home was simply taken away," he said.

Wars, Zelenskyy said, end truly and honestly when the evil that gave birth to them can be extinguished. "And that is why the sense of justice and the aspirations of peace must go hand in hand. This requires, in particular, not to forget about Crimea, to fight for Crimea, against the evil that Russia brought to Crimea, and then tried to spread throughout Ukraine and wants to spread also on the lands of other peoples," he said.

According to the president, "we must fight for the full restoration of the power of international law, power in relation to Crimea, and therefore any other land."

"We must fight for the fundamental right of the Crimean Tatar people, like any other people, to the right to live in their home... The return of all our prisoners, the return of all those deported from Ukraine, the return of Crimean political prisoners is our absolute priority," he said.