“We don’t fight meat.” Krivonos commented on Zelensky’s words about mobilizing “everyone” in the event of a new Russian attack.

The undersecretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Serhiy Krivonos, doubts the possibility of realizing the idea of ​​mobilizing “everyone” in case of a new aggression from Russia.

He said this to NV, commenting on the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The president in an interview with “Focus”, published on December 25, answering the question of whether he thought about the possibility 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. ”

According to Krivonos, Zelensky’s entourage convinces him that the idea of ​​such a mobilization is possible to implement.

“[Они] tell the president they can do it. And we, who went through this and saw it in our realities, understand that even if we can theoretically mobilize women and men, are these people trained to have weapons in their hands? No. Do these people want to do this? Did not say.

The undersecretary of the NSDC expressed the opinion that patriotism in Ukraine “Not supported at the state level.”

“2014 showed that a lot of [граждан] I was going [воевать], but even more – he fled the mobilization. Run away. 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 do not fight with the meat, we do not abandon tens of thousands of people. On the other hand, look at the experience of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It showed that a small number of personnel in interaction with the team, with properly planned operations, can achieve high results. Therefore, a large number of mobilized people will not solve the issue of the ability to resist the enemy, “he added.

Russia annexed 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”.