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The decision to remove full combat readiness in the Ukrainian troops on February 27, 2014 was made by the acting VO “Svoboda” appointed on the same day under the quota. Minister of Defense Igor Tenyukh.
This was stated during a Skype call from Sevastopol in the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv by the former commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Chief of the General Staff - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Euromaidan period, Yuriy Ilyin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the admiral, on the morning of the seizure of the buildings of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Council of Crimea, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were put on full combat readiness.
“Immediately during this telephone conversation, I set the task of bringing all the Armed Forces of Ukraine to “full” combat readiness... It was decided to use internal troops to block these institutions and prevent any unrest there... At around 16 o’clock General Vorobyov came to me and informed me that Tenyukh had been appointed acting. Minister of Defense, that he received an order not to carry out any of my instructions, orders, and to cancel the orders I gave. At 16:30 p.m., a telegram arrived canceling my orders and reducing combat readiness from “full” to “constant,” Ilyin said.
Igor Tenyukh.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, Tenyukh was cursed on Maidan and demanded that he be put on trial.
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