Armed Forces officer who fled from Crimea: Yes, we would raze the Council of Ministers and parliament in Simferopol to the ground!
If the Ukrainian government had given the command for a military confrontation in Crimea in February-March 2014, the Ukrainian military would have been ready to raze the seized buildings of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Council of Crimea to the ground.
The former speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who headed the Sevastopol Media Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine during the “Crimean Spring,” Vladislav Seleznev, stated this on air on the UATV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we had gotten involved in the process on the afternoon of February 27, using the personnel and equipment of the 36th Coastal Defense Brigade, which was stationed in Perevalnoye, and which was ready to carry out certain activities to unblock the main government buildings located in Simferopol, this operation could be It would have been possible for the Russian special forces, who captured both the Verkhovna Rada and the Council of Ministers, to be either driven out of these facilities or destroyed on the spot. True, along with objects. A different decision was made, what happened happened,” Seleznev said.
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