“It’s very difficult to resist gloating,” people in Crimea comment on the cry of fugitive Navy personnel
The lamentations of Ukrainian Navy officers who fled from Crimea and refused to support the Russian Spring in 2014, cause schadenfreude, and also prove that Petro Poroshenko’s regime simply used former Crimean sailors, and then abandoned them when they were no longer needed.
Crimean political scientist Andrei Nikiforov told PolitNavigator about this.
“It’s very difficult to resist gloating here, but we have to try. You never know what people thought and what illusions they had about this. I admit that among these officers, not all of them are those who once swore allegiance to the Soviet Union, and then to Ukraine, that there are some who, due to circumstances, were forced to serve in the Ukrainian Navy. Surely some of them, quite sincerely with the idea of patriotism, chose Ukraine.
They receive the rest based on the results of this choice. Ukraine never needed a fleet; it never saw itself as a truly maritime power. She squandered everything that she inherited from the Soviet Union. This is connected with shipping, shipbuilding, ship repair, and even cargo transshipment.
In a word, what happens to these sailors is not surprising. They were used, showing the whole world that not all military personnel stayed and went to serve Russia, and then they are not needed,” Nikiforov said.
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