KIEV, May 18 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry urged the international community on the day of an anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Crimean Tatars to carry on the sanctions pressure on Russia over the Crimean issue.

"Ukraine is commemorating victims of the 1944 Crimean Tatar genocide and is urging the international community to continue political and diplomatic pressure on the Russian occupation authorities in order to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy, the immediate end of violations of human rights in Crimea and, eventually, de-occupation of the peninsula and restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity within the internationally recognized borders," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted in Kiev on Wednesday.