According to General Nazarov, such a plan was considered by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early March 2014.
According to the military, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had the opportunity to prevent the annexation of Crimea in 2014 / REUTERS
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During the occupation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could occupy and hold Crimean airfields and other strategic facilities.
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Such an opinion in an interview “Crimea.Realities“Said the first deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Nazarov. He was part of the military delegation to the Crimea.
“Those plans provided for our military intervention in Crimea. We understood that the task was rather difficult and could hardly be 100% completed. But nevertheless, it was real to take control of key airfields, key facilities, as it was later in Donbass. I still analyze and conclude that this task was real, ”Nazarov said.
According to the general, the corresponding plan was considered by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early March 2014. However, later it was canceled by the Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine Mikhail Kutsin.
“The reasoning sounded in such a way that the situation is already very tense, there is no need to tense it even more. “That’s it, let’s put the command to ‘set aside’, return everyone, and don’t send anyone, planes to airfields, our units to their barracks, and that’s it,” he said.
Ukrainian Armed Forces plans to liberate Crimea in 2014
- Ukrainian army in winter 2014 prepared a secret operationto thwart Russia’s annexation of Crimea and protect the peninsula. The most combat-ready airborne units were going to be transferred to the Crimea.
- When the preparation for the operation started, a reconnaissance company of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was already in the Crimea for planned military exercises. They also planned to transfer scouts from the Kirovograd special-purpose regiment and the 79th airmobile brigade from Nikolaev.
- Former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Serhiy Krivonos in 2014 headed the headquarters of the Airborne Forces of Ukraine. In a comment to reporters, he said that the operation was indeed prepared in February and was planned to begin in early March.
- The paratroopers were supposed to enter the Crimea, take positions and strengthen the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the peninsula.
- Ex-head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and. about. President of Ukraine (2014) Oleksandr Turchynov believes that at the beginning of 2014 the Ukrainian army was not ready to defend its state. The former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada noted that many people do not understand that the main danger was a full-fledged continental war.
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Dmitry Zakharov
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