The loss of the armory at Feodosia base, effectively the last territorial possession on the peninsula, has led Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchinov to order a full military withdrawal from Crimea.
The Ukraine military had been ordering pullouts for much of the peninsula since Friday, but a few bases had stragglers who claimed they never got the orders. Those bases were quickly consolidated under Russian military control.
Russia annexed Crimea on Friday, less than a week after a referendum showed overwhelming support among Crimeans to secede from Ukraine and enter the Russian Federation. They took a lot of Ukraine’s military with them.
Ukraine’s deputy Army Chief of Staff Oleksandr Rozmaznin confirmed that “around 50 percent” of the commanders of Ukrainian forces in Crimea have signed contracts to join the Russian military, though he insisted they would not provide the names. Denys Berezovsky, briefly named as Ukraine’s Navy Chief before defecting, has been appointed deputy commander of the Russian fleet at Sevastopol.
I am not surprised at all. RTTV reported only a conservative 11 procent, but that was some days ago. I think that most Ukrainians are reluctant to accept a bunch of neo Nazis appointed by Victoria Nulan of the U.S.
"Well, what do we do now, Ollie?"
"another nice mess"
8 out of 9 Ukraine military in Crimea have defected to RF side. What else do you need to know?
Although the following is off topic it is news.
Oleksandr Mouzitsjko a local leader of the fascist Pravi Sektor party in Western Ukraine, who was sought by Russia and internationally for having fought in Chechnya with a terrorist Islamic group, was killed in a gunfight with the Ukrainian police according to the Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad.
By now AW is about the only discussion site where I do not have to sign up for Twitter or Facebook or other such nonsense. Please keep it that way.
There is some indication "Sashko Bilyi's" killing was to silence him. He probably knew who was responsible for the sniper killings at the Maidan, maybe it was him, but now there will never be accountability for that.
There is some indication "Sashko Bilyi's" killing was to silence him. He probably knew who was responsible for the sniper killings at the Maidan