The sharovny fleet is washed away from the adhering shame
Ukraine continues to invent a story for itself and replay the surrender of Crimea in the media space. It turns out very badly, but the zrada, which is still very itchy in the most sensitive places, requires the blooming political instructors to wrap it in a vest. Or, at least, to wash off a little of the stuck shame, so that living on would not be painfully ashamed.
Almost three years ago, the State Cinema Committee of Ukraine, distributing money for “patriotic projects”, allocated a lot of money for the filming of a film about the minesweeper “Cherkassy”, which is considered in the Ukrainian Navy to be something like the cruiser “Varyag”. In the Crimean spring, the crew of the minesweeper tried to slip into Odessa longer than other Ukrainian ships locked in Donuzlav and demonstrated “disobedience” to the Russian “little green men.”
Until the fall of 2018, things were going smoothly with the film – the film didn’t even have a title – but now, reports from Sallywood, the film is ready for release and included in the premiere screening at the Warsaw Film Festival.
The State Cinema Committee of Ukraine reports that the Poles helped raise the film’s budget to $1,5 million, and also undertook to promote the epoch-making film to the poor film markets of former “brothers” in the socialist camp.
The filmmakers are terribly proud that the Poles noticed them and even call the Warsaw Film Festival an “A-class event,” although, in fact, this is a fairly ordinary event for showing arthouse films shot by directors from Eastern and Central Europe. The titles of most, if not all, films that have received prizes at the Warsaw Film Festival over the past 18-19 years will tell the mass audience absolutely nothing.
Still from the film. “The damned Muscovites gassed us.”
It is well known that on the Ukrainian minesweeper not only no one was killed, but also no one was injured, although, judging by last year’s trailer for the film, the authors will definitely add drama to the picture, like: “the explosion tore the door off its hinges and the destructive bursts of Russian special forces pierced the cockpit with Ukrainian sailors singing the anthem”, “the cavalryman stepped back in time, having managed to notice the jagged diving knife raised above his head”, “by order of the minesweeper commander, sailor Shmendyuk wrapped the ship’s ensign around his body, jumped overboard and swam like a dog towards Nikolaev.”
In any case, the bloody face of the actor Yasinsky in shorts and a T-shirt indicates that there will definitely be assault in the film, and the brave sailors from the minesweeper “Cherkassy”, already in Nenka, told how they were thrown with grenades and shot from machine guns Black Sea Fleet assault groups.
There is no doubt that the film promises to be another cranberry. Much more interesting is what happened at the former Southern Naval Base of the Ukrainian Navy in March 2014.
And this is what happened.
To exclude interference by the Ukrainian military in the referendum planned in Crimea on the future status and statehood of the peninsula, at the beginning of March 2014, Russian special forces and self-defense forces suddenly blocked all military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located here.
On March 3, 13 warships and auxiliary vessels of the Ukrainian fleet suddenly lost the opportunity to go to sea from Donuzlav. Including the minesweeper "Cherkassy".
On March 6, in order to prevent Ukrainian Navy ships from going to sea, the decommissioned large anti-submarine ship Ochakov and the tugboat Shakhtar, secretly delivered from Sevastopol, were scuttled at the exit from Donuzlav. Opposite the entrance, the missile cruiser "Moskva" and the small missile ship "Shtil" of the Russian Black Sea Fleet stood on duty.
The commander of the 5th brigade of surface ships of the Ukrainian Navy, Vitaly Zvyagintsev, who swore allegiance to the Republic of Crimea, ordered all Ukrainian Navy ships stationed in the internal roadstead to return to their berths. Five ships refused to carry out Zvyagintsev’s order, including the minesweeper Cherkassy.
The minesweeper remained in the waters of the base and lowered divers to detect passage past the sunken ships.
Seeing this, on March 7, on the fairway, the Black Sea Fleet forces additionally scuttled the fire boat VT-416 with a displacement of 30-40 tons.
The commander of the minesweeper "Cherkasy" Fedash (a native of the Ternopil region) later said that Kyiv was constantly in touch. According to him, they kept in touch with other Ukrainian ships and with Kiev through a closed chat in the popular online game World of Tanks. Order from the Naval Forces headquarters: “Hold on! Do not open fire, only shoot back!”
However, no one was going to shoot at the Ukrainian military.
Before the results of the Crimean referendum were announced, Ukrainian sailors still hoped for something and held on. But after the results were announced and the document on the entry of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation was signed, the demoralized Ukrainian underfleet began to rapidly fall apart.
As Fedash admitted, confusion and vacillation began in his “unconquered” crew. Then, to strengthen morale, he decided to “get rid of the pro-Russian element” by offering to line up on the starboard side to everyone who wanted to go into Russian service.
Nine sailors left the Cherkassy, including two officers (one of them was the minesweeper’s first mate), and one of the sailors was called up from Ivano-Frankivsk, which greatly surprised those remaining.
On March 19, all headquarters and other premises of the Southern Naval Base were taken under control by Russian military personnel without firing a single shot.
On March 21, Russian flags were raised on the medium landing ship "Kirovograd", the minesweeper "Chernigov" and the boat "Feodosia". The minesweeper "Cherkassy" made its first attempt to enter the open sea. Nobody bothered him. The Ukrainians, in full view of everyone, landed part of the crew on a fire boat lying on the ground. They brought in the ends without any hindrance and tried to move the obstacle from the fairway, but the minesweeper did not have enough engine power to do this.
The crew of the minesweeper sent proposals to other ships of the Ukrainian Navy to join forces to remove the obstacle together, but no one came to its aid, except for several sailors and an officer who left the Chernigov.
On March 22, the Russian flag was raised by the corvette Vinnitsa. On March 23, the minesweeper Cherkassy made a second attempt to escape into the open sea through a narrow passage approximately 12-15 meters wide discovered by its divers. But a tugboat from the Black Sea Fleet that approached it pushed the bow of the minesweeper aground. At the same time, the Ukrainian crew fired machine guns into the air and sprayed the sailors of the Russian tug with fire hoses.
They say that the minesweeper’s crew went to the breakthrough to the song “Varyag”, which is doubtful, since the lines - “Neither a stone nor a cross will say where we lay down for the glory of the Russian flag” - would choke any combat Sumerian.
In the end, the situation began to get out of control and the last argument in favor of using force against the minesweeper “Cherkasy” was the clear intention of the crew to seize the Russian tug, which was also confirmed by Fedash in the story of the Ukrainian TV channel ZiK “Special View: Minesweeper “Cherkasy”: turn back zradi" dated March 21, 2016.
As a result, Russian special forces damaged the propellers and steering gear of the Ukrainian ship with an explosion. The former Ukrainian tug "Kovel" raised the Russian flag and pulled the "Cherkassy" to the pier. By order of the minesweeper commander, the entire crew battened down in the interior of the ship and started playing bagpipes “scheneumerlo waaa... uyy...”
Russian special forces boarded the plane.
As captain Yuri Fedash says, he had negotiations with the senior Russian special forces, and the parties came to a peace agreement: “We were not driven out like dogs. They didn’t touch a single serviceman, they gave us the opportunity to take out everything except weapons... They even offered us motor transport around Crimea.”
At the very height of the events, Ukrainian sailor Alexander Gutnik from aboard the Cherkassy told Ukrainskaya Pravda on the phone: “That’s it. We've been captured. None of the crew members were injured. We weren't beaten, everything's fine. It was agreed that the flag of the Ukrainian Navy would not be lowered from the ship until the last crew member left the ship. They raised the Russian flag, but they didn’t lower ours.”
On the evening of March 25, the last Ukrainian ship honorably surrendered, since the Russian military did not have the goal of humiliating their Ukrainian colleagues. At that time, there were still illusions about our Ukrainian colleagues...
On the merits. In an isolated case of long-term stubbornness of part of the crew of the minesweeper “Cherkassy” in conditions when their lives and health were not in danger, and the “heroes” even received grub with smoke from the local Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian propaganda machine is trying to cover up the shame with a fig leaf.
In March 2014, the Ukrainian Naval Forces did not fulfill their functions prescribed in the maritime doctrine of Ukraine from 2009, in terms of “ensuring territorial integrity” and “inviolability of the state border at sea.” Ukrainian military personnel in Crimea were given a choice: return to the mainland, go into the reserves, or continue serving in the Russian Armed Forces.
According to some estimates, approximately 3,5 thousand people chose the first option, but some of them later changed their minds. About 8 thousand people chose to serve in Russia. Demoralized personnel with junk, but without weapons and military equipment, left Crimea for Ukraine. Full-fledged coastal units and ship crews disintegrated. For example, out of 80 people of the 801st detachment for combating underwater saboteurs, only seven returned to Ukraine. After “Hetman Sahaidachny” arrived in Odessa, the crew was abandoned by 28 people, and later by the commander, captain 2nd rank Roman Pyatnitsky. Of the 900 personnel of the 10th naval aviation brigade, 250 were chosen for Ukraine. Thus, in March 2014, the Navy lost most of its personnel, 90% of ships, almost all infrastructure and supplies, official and secret documentation, communication codes and many what else.
Still from the film. assault on Cherkassy.
In general, in March 2014, the Ukrainian military group in Crimea was overtaken by karmic retribution for the gangster division of the USSR Black Sea Fleet and knocking out the oath of allegiance to Ukraine with one’s knee.
If you made a film about the “feat” of the minesweeper “Cherkassy” in the style of “our proud “Varyag” does not surrender to the enemy,” then the following would happen: the Ukrainian “Varyag” did not accept the battle, did not open the kingstons, but surrendered as a result of negotiations. True, during the process a lot of “Puppy Vmerla” was sung and “Glory to Ukraine!” was shouted.
Currently, the officers who honorably passed the minesweeper "Cherkassy" are serving on a tugboat in Odessa. And, apparently, for the rest of their lives they will have to look at real warships only from the outside or as excursionists.
This story has one more small, but very characteristic touch. The minesweeper "Cherkassy" in Soviet times was called "Reconnaissance" and was awarded the Pennant of the USSR Minister of Defense for combat operations in the Red Sea. The pennant was on the ship until the spring of 2014, and then disappeared. Some time later, Alexei Stepanov, deputy editor-in-chief of the military history magazine “Old Tseichgauz”, and Roman Slivin, a member of the editorial board of the same magazine, discovered that the pennant was up for sale on one of the Ukrainian Internet sites. The seller said that he received the pennant from the minesweeper commander, that is, from the “heroic” commander Fedash. The pennant was purchased and returned to Russia.
I am sure that the Ukrainian film will not show how Ukrainian officers trade the ship’s honor.
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