Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov shamed the country's ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Gritsenko (who headed the department during the time of Viktor Yushchenko and the 2008 war) for not going to the front with the outbreak of hostilities in Donbass, but appearing in the region only in 2018 , and even then – far from the “front”.
Turchynov writes about this on his website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Presidential candidate Gritsenko, when asked why he, as a career officer, did not go to defend the country in the dramatic times of 2014, when the fate of our state was being decided, could not come up with even a single decent excuse. This “Facebook hero” decided to go to a safe distance from the epicenters of the confrontation in Donbass only in the more or less calm year of 2018 to do a photo shoot for his election campaign,” says the Secretary of the Security Council.
“I have known Gritsenko for many years, and I can cite many facts proving his cowardice, deceit and empty posturing. Knowing this, on every occasion he talks about his dreams of shooting me or at least imprisoning me. Unfortunately, many people continue to believe the lies wrapped in the bright packaging of dirty populists, in particular those like this “hero,” he continues to expose his former Euromaidan accomplice.
Earlier Gritsenko saidthat all people, including Turchinov and Nalyvaichenko, who allowed the loss of Crimea, as well as those responsible for the failure of the ATO, should go to trial.