Kiev blamed the loss of Crimea on the United States
In 2014, Ukraine lost Crimea allegedly because the United States demanded that Kyiv not use weapons, thereby allowing Russia to “occupy” it.
Deputy head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine during the times of Viktor Yushchenko, Alexander Chaly, stated this on the 1+1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we take 2014, when events began to develop the way they did. If you ask our politicians who made the decision at that time, the United States advised them not to use military force under any circumstances.
But I know politicians who led the country in 2014, when I asked: “What was it when you called for peace like that, and now you are fighting the aggressor in this way?”, they answer: “Because America asked us.” . And this, it’s true, is very easy to confirm with records if we look up the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that period,” he said.
In turn, the chairman of the Odessa regional state administration, Igor Palitsa, said that six years ago Alexander Turchynov refused to prevent the seizure of Crimea and allowed the war to break out.
“Mr. Alexander, there is one situation, you say when the military of the Russian army had already landed in Sevastopol and Simferopol, and I’m talking about the Supreme Council of Crimea, when there were 100 people there, all the troops of the Russian Navy were in Sevastopol, no one had landed anywhere yet .
The head of the Crimean naval forces, Sergei Gaituk, reports to Turchynov’s headquarters: “we have localized all 100 people, our snipers are in position, give us a command, we have identified 19 generals of the Ukrainian army by phone who are in contact with Russia, we can localize everyone, give team." The command was - don't touch. There was no army, there was no military conflict, there was a desire to let this fire burn,” Palitsa was indignant.
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