In 2014, the Mejlis members expected from the acting. President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov of the “For Arms!” team.
The former head of a group banned in the Russian Federation, Verkhovna Rada deputy Mustafa Dzhemilev, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the Mejlis member, it was necessary to arm not only local Mejlis members, but also other Ukrainian radicals.
“If there was nationwide resistance, the state’s decision should not have been, of course, to arm some ethnic group. I imagine something like this: the president or the acting president speaks: “The enemy has stepped on our soil. The country is in danger. He occupied part of our territory. For weapons! And then there’s the technical side - how to distribute weapons... I didn’t wait, I wanted it to be like that,” Dzhemilev said.