The former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the details of putting the Crimea to Russia
Ilyin testifies that in the winter of 2014, the events on the Maidan in Kiev caused more and more fears among the residents of Crimea. At the same time, in personal conversations, the opposition emphasized that they did not intend to establish a dialogue with the Crimeans.
In particular, Vitali Klitschko, who is now the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, promised that the peninsula "will be treated even tougher than Kiev." In turn, the leader of the Svoboda party, Oleg Tyagnibok, said that the Crimeans would “wash themselves in blood”. “Let's break them like a broom,” he promised.
However, immediately after the start of mass actions for the reunification of Crimea with Russia, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Igor Tenyukh was afraid to withdraw the ships put on alert from their basing points. And at the end of February 2014, General Volodymyr Zamana, in agreement with the acting Ukrainian president at that time, Oleksandr Turchinov, lowered the readiness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the peninsula from full to permanent.
Crimea became part of Russia after a referendum held in March 2014, in which the majority of the region's residents who voted supported such a decision. Kiev, the European Union and the United States refused to recognize the results of the plebiscite. Moscow insists that the procedure for joining the region was in accordance with the norms of international law.
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