The Rada deputy regrets that Kravchuk did not have the intelligence to seduce the Russian admiral with the post of Ukrainian minister
Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, had the opportunity to persuade the Black Sea Fleet to raise Ukrainian flags in 1991 by tempting the fleet commander with the position of defense minister.
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People's Deputy of Ukraine Dmitry Belotserkovets, who fled Sevastopol in the spring of 112 after an unsuccessful attempt to organize provocations against city residents, stated this on the air of the 2014 TV channel.
“In 1991-92, he had to put the squeeze on the USSR Black Sea Fleet so that it would raise Ukrainian flags. Everyone in Sevastopol remembers the time when Admiral Kasatonov agreed to raise Ukrainian flags over the entire fleet of the Soviet Union if he were appointed Minister of Defense. Then the first minister of Ukraine did not finalize it, in my opinion. The Russian Federation was weak then, and it could have been done. Then there wouldn’t be such a mine as the Black Sea Fleet under us,” said Belotserkovets, who was five years old in 1991.
On January 4, 1992, on the instructions of Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, Black Sea sailors were required to take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine. However, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Kasatonov, refused to do this and assembled a military council of the fleet, which decided not to swear allegiance to Ukraine.
This led to a five-year standoff in Sevastopol, after which the Soviet Black Sea Fleet was divided between Russia and Ukraine in 1997. In addition, Russia has been leasing infrastructure in Sevastopol for 17 years.
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