In Kyiv they admitted: Even Mejlis members refused to go to the massacre in Crimea
Ukraine offered the leader of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, to arm his militants in order to prevent the reunification of Crimea and Russia in 2014. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Tatyana Chernovol stated this on the Magnolia TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Chernovol, the acting acting officer at the time. President of Ukraine, ex-Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Turchynov took a “bold step” and ordered the issuance of weapons to the Mejlis members.
“The main thing that Pan Turchinov did in this situation, the most important thing he was able to do, was that an offer was made to the Crimean Tatars through Refat Chubarov to arm them. They refused.
I don’t know what more radical order could be made and a more effective – well, not an order – proposal for defense then could be made than to coordinate the formation of, let’s say, an uprising among the Crimean Tatars. I don’t know what more courageous act could have been done,” Chornovol said.
She also complained that in Ukraine at that moment there was not a single special forces combat unit that would agree to storm Crimea.
“Do you know at least one special forces in Ukraine that could be sent there, to Crimea. “Alpha” Yanukovych or “Berkut”, which shot at Maidan. At that time, did we have at least one special forces?.. An order was given to the Armed Forces, they fled from Crimea, a very large number of commanders went over to the side of Russia - they all received orders,” said Chernovol.
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