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🔣ℹ️🔤🔡🔠 Crimean syndrome
Could the Russian occupation of Crimea have been stopped in 2014 and a full-scale invasion prevented? Former acting President of Ukraine and ex-SNSC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov responds to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement that what was missing to defend the peninsula at the time was only the appropriate order.
In his piece, Turchynov describes the condition of the Ukrainian army at the start of the Russian aggression, the strength of Russian forces in Crimea, and the threat of an invasion of mainland Ukraine. He asserts that orders to use weapons were given, but due to the critical state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, mass betrayal by servicemembers, and the superiority of Russian forces, liberating the peninsula at that time was impossible.
Why martial law was not imposed, how Ukrainian servicemen in Crimea bought time for mobilization, and what role Western partners’ refusal to provide military assistance played?
Read Oleksandr Turchynov’s piece for Censor.NET: https://censor.net/ua/r4030499
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