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If Russia decides to attack Ukraine from occupied Crimea, “everyone will mobilize,” both men and women, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in response to a question from journalists. The first president of Ukraine and the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG for the resolution of the conflict in Donbass Leonid Kravchuk said that the president could not respond otherwise.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words on general mobilization in the event of a new Russian attack on Ukraine are a normal reaction from the head of state, said Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group to resolve the conflict in Donbass.
“Any answer is related to the question posed by the journalist. The journalist asked the question:” If, say, there were an attack by Russia from Crimea, how would Ukraine behave? “President Zelensky replied:” If this happened, we would defend our land and everyone would go to defend: men and women. And the question was ‘if only’, and the answer was in the same perspective, “Kravchuk said on air in Ukraine on December 24.
He believes Zelensky “could not answer otherwise.”
“And when we now begin to try to translate this into a purely practical plane, as I hear some of our officials say, in particular, this is still a long way off. When I was no longer president, they also asked me:” If the enemy came to your land, what would you do? “I said that I have a sufficient number of weapons of different calibers, that I would shoot all the enemies that are in my land. As long as the weapon is in hand and while the eyes are looking, I will kill the enemy and not live by the principle to “turn the other cheek to the enemy.” “I will fight for my land” is the normal response of a Ukrainian patriot, a person who loves his land, ”added Kravchuk.
In an interview with Focus, published on December 25, Zelensky, answering the question of whether he thought about the possibility of attacks by the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea, said: “This is a terrible situation, I don’t even want to represent it. I am against it. Hopefully it is impossible. Otherwise, there will be a great war. We will not go anywhere, everyone we will fight, everyone will mobilize – both men and women. “
His words were criticized by the undersecretary of the Defense and National Security Council of Ukraine, Serhiy Krivonos.
“2014 showed that a lot of [граждан] I was going [воевать], but even more fled the mobilization. And 2018, when martial law was declared, it also showed that a large number fled [от мобилизации]… Therefore, the State must educate this reserve of mobilization, and also ideologically. This is not accomplished in one year. This is the first. Second, we must understand that, even having mobilized people, we must teach them. Because we are not fighting with meat, we are not abandoning tens of thousands of people, ”he said.
Russia occupied Crimea after illegal referendum on March 16, 2014… Ukraine and most countries in the world do not recognize the peninsula’s accession to the Russian Federation. At the moment, there is a checkpoint regime between mainland Ukraine and Crimea, and Kiev does not de facto control the peninsula.
In the immediate aftermath of the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
At the beginning andJulia 2020 Commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Neizhpapa He stated that Russian troops may try to seize part of the Kherson region and the Ukrainian side is preparing for it.
The Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev, said that Neizhpapa exaggerated the likelihood of an invasion threat from Russian troops and suggested that such statements were caused by the inexperience of the rear admiral. Naev noted that at present the Ukrainian side does not see an immediate threat of invasion by Russian troops from Crimea, but Ukraine is considering a scenario in which the Russian Federation will launch an offensive in several areas at once, and the task of Ukrainian army is deterring the aggressor.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, described the information about the possible invasion of the Russian Federation in the south of Ukraine as “utter stupidity” and “stoking anti-Russian hysteria”.
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