The ex-commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Igor Voronchenko, said that in early 2014, when the seizure of Crimea by Russia began, he called for more decisive action.
When the Supreme Council of the ARC was seized in Crimea in early 2014, it had to be taken by storm. This opinion was expressed by the former commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Igor Voronchenko to the project “Crimea. Realities” in an interview that was posted on March 21st.
“We had a chance, but we did not use it. This is the unblocking of administrative buildings. If we had shown decisiveness then, but we had very little time. It was necessary on that terrible and, as they say, tragic day, February 27, when they captured Parliament of Crimea, give the command to storm. I had two tanks loaded with ammunition. As in 1993 [первый президент РФ Борис] Yeltsin shot the White House, and in Crimea it was possible to shoot, “he said.
According to Voronchenko, who was Deputy Commander of the Fleet for Coastal Defense in 2014, at that time the First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Sergei Eliseev, addressed him with the words: “Why are you organizing a war here?”
“At a meeting at the headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the headquarters of the police headquarters, I also said:“ Let’s act, let’s. ”Already in 2014 in Kramatorsk, we met with the general [Валерием] Radchenko – he [ранее] headed the Crimean police – and the first words that he said to me: “Igor, yours was true,” – said the ex-commander of the Navy.
Early morning February 27, 2014 in Simferopol, a group of people armed with automatic weapons and machine guns seized buildings The Supreme Council of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of Autonomy. At the same time, a large contingent of Russian servicemen landed on the peninsula and began the blockade of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
After the Russian-inspired riots on the peninsula in March 2014, contrary to Ukrainian legislation, so-called referendumleading to the occupation of Crimea.
The accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation is not recognized by Ukraine and most countries of the world.
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