Military experts call modern Crimea "a land aircraft carrier" and "a monkey with a grenade." Missile systems and possibly nuclear warheads located on the peninsula threaten the security of Ukraine and NATO member countries. In the meantime, there is no need to worry about it. ”

In early 2018, in the area of \u200b\u200bCape Fiolent, the Russian military deployed a second division of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems. The journalists were told that the missile system would control the skies over Chongar and Armenian, where the administrative border of Crimea and mainland Ukraine passes.

“The S-400 can detect targets at ranges of up to 600 kilometers. Even on approaching the Crimean border, we will see everything perfectly on our system, "says the commander of the battery of the 1st artillery battalion of the Russian army Evgeny Markelov.

The first S-400 division was deployed near Feodosia a year ago. Then the deadly weapon was even sprinkled with holy water, which is also significant - in front of the cameras of Russian media journalists.

"The S-400 blocks the entire Crimean air defense system and makes it impossible for drones, planes or other aircraft to penetrate here," the Russian State Duma deputy from Sevastopol boasted Dmitry Belik.

The S-400 is a defensive weapon, but in the hands of Russia it is a real threat, says a NATO security program specialist, analyst at the US-German Marshall Fund Bruno Lete.

“Due to the appearance of Russian S-400 complexes in the region, other countries now cannot guarantee the safety and protection of their aircraft. After all, these anti-aircraft missile systems can intercept almost everything in the sky - and jet planes too, ”the expert points out.

The S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system can fire at 80 targets simultaneously. The maximum range of the missile is 400 kilometers. Such a rocket can reach Turkey: from Sevastopol to the Turkish city of Sinop - 315 kilometers.

Operation "resuscitation"

Not far from Balaklava, the Russian military resumed practice firing of the Utes missile system. They restored the abandoned coastal mine division, revived the operation of the Dnepr radar station and abandoned Soviet bunkers. Although, according to military experts, the restoration of the outdated military infrastructure is in vain.

“Soviet bases were created under the strategy of the Soviet Union. They were built in and built for the tasks that were assigned to the armadas of tanks, the armies of the first echelon, the second, the third, namely the Soviet Union. Therefore, it is inexpedient to restore the elements of these bases, "the military expert notes. Sergey Grabsky.

The Ukrainian drone managed to get into the skies over the annexed Dzhankoy and explore Russian military facilities. So far, this route has not been repeated. The flight was controlled by the head of aerial reconnaissance of the Sisters of Victory volunteer fund Alexey Berezhko.

“There was little information from the airfields, so it was interesting what equipment was based there,” Berezhko shared.

The drone removed the fortified area, the special forces base and the helicopter airfield in Dzhankoy. The footage shows that the newest Mi-28 helicopters - "Night Hunter" were transferred here. Also, aerial reconnaissance found out that Russia has equipped new military facilities on protected lands in the north of Crimea.

Crimeans posted footage of the Iskander complex moving along the roads of the peninsula on a social network. These machines can be used to transport nuclear weapons. In August 2016, dozens of military KamAZ and Uralovs drove into Kerch. In the same year, a column of armored personnel carriers was transferred to Simferopol. Armored vehicles were also fixed on the side of the highway in the Belogorsk District.

Journalists Crimea.Realities they filmed how equipment for military communications was brought to the peninsula. Russia deployed Su-24 bombers and Su-30 SM fighters to the military airfield in Saki. Here, the Russians use the Nitka training ground - pilots are trained to take off and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Nuclear weapon?! No, have not seen

Back at the end of 2014, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Moscow has the right to place nuclear weapons in the annexed Crimea.

And in December 2016 the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev that Russia brought nuclear weapons to the peninsula.

“The information services of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people have information that six nuclear warheads have been delivered,” Dzhemilev said in the European Parliament.

Speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev that in the village of Krasnokamenka near Feodosia there are premises with the necessary equipment where you can store nuclear weapons. But there is no confirmation of this fact from the Ukrainian side.

Indirectly, the presence of missiles with nuclear warheads in Crimea is confirmed by the Kavkaz-2016 exercises, where the Russian military trained to transport and deploy nuclear weapons.

"From my personal experience of using these tactical nuclear weapons, I want to say: they own them, they test these processes during exercises," the military expert points out. Igor Romanenko.

Pro-Russian activists try to unfold the flag of the Russian Federation in the courtyard of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea during clashes with the Crimean Tatars. February 26, 2014, Simferopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

People carry a badly wounded man who was injured during clashes near the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea. February 26, 2014, Simferopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Servicemen of the Naval Forces of Ukraine stand outside the headquarters door and watch the seizure of the military unit. March 19, 2014, Sevastopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

One of the participants in the seizure of the headquarters of the naval forces of Ukraine enters the building through the broken wall. March 19, 2014, Sevastopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Participants in the seizure of the headquarters of the Ukrainian naval forces in Sevastopol remove state symbols in one of the headquarters offices. March 19, 2014.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

An officer of the Ukrainian naval forces collects his personal belongings in the captured headquarters. March 19, 2014.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

"Little green men" at the entrance to the military unit No. 2382 (State Border Guard Service of Ukraine). Balaklava.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Ukrainian Armed Forces sailors lie face down on the deck of the Khmelnitsky corvette during the seizure of the vessel by the Sevastopol people's vigilantes.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Members of the Sevastopol people's squad lead to the deck of the captain of the captured corvette of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Khmelnitsky".

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

One of the participants in the seizure of the headquarters of the naval force of Ukraine in Sevastopol cuts the Ukrainian flag from the flagpole. March 19, 2014.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Members of the Sevastopol people's squad and self-defense of Crimea seize the military base "Belbek" in Kach. March 22, 2014, Sevastopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

The crew of the reconnaissance ship of the Naval Forces of Ukraine "Slavutich" after a long resistance leaves the ship. March 22, 2014, Sevastopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

A Ukrainian soldier is sitting on his things near the Belbek military base, waiting for a truck to leave Crimea.

A woman walks along a street in the town of Balaklava past the so-called "green men" who are located near the entrance to military unit No. 2382 (State Border Guard Service of Ukraine).

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

An employee of the Ukrainian naval forces looks out of the window of the checkpoint of the Headquarters of the Ukrainian naval forces at the "little green men". March 03, 2014, Sevastopol.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Residents of Sevastopol rejoice at the announcement of the President of the Russian Federation on the annexation of Crimea to Russia. March 18, 2014.

Photo: Andrey Lyubimov

Fence of the headquarters of the Ukrainian naval forces in Sevastopol 5 months after the annexation of Crimea to Russia. August 29, 2014.

eagle_rost c The fate of Ukrainian military aircraft in Crimea

My free retelling from English from an article of a magazine.

Mi-8VZPU. Photo from the Internet, I don't know the author.
So, at the beginning of 2014, there were 126 units of aviation equipment of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in Crimea (84 aircraft and 42 helicopters). This technique was part of the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade of the Naval Forces of Ukraine in Saki, 204 brigades of tactical aviation in Belbek, was stored or under repair at the Sevastopol Aviation Enterprise (SAP) or the Evpatoria Aircraft Repair Plant (EARZ), as well as as part of the State Aviation Research Center (State Aviation Research Center). research center) in Kirovsky.
During the events of March 2014, 10 returned to the mainland (4 aircraft and 6 helicopters).
Of these, one Ka-27 was aboard the frigate "Getman Sagaidachny", 3 aircraft and 5 helicopters flew from Saki during the great escapes and one An-26 "59 yellow" (as it is wittily written in the article - DNVTs "s only airworthy aircraft ) ended up in Ukraine from the GANITS in Kirovsky.
Of the remaining 116 units, 110 were scheduled for redeployment, 6 for disposal (An-26 in Kirovsky and 5 Be-12-2 in Saki and 3 on the territory of EARZ).
The transfer of aircraft took place in April-early June 2014 and was stopped due to the Civil War in Ukraine.
82 devices (59 aircraft and 23 helicopters) were transferred:
35 fighters Mig-29 and 4 Mig-29UB, as well as L-39 from the 204 TA brigade in Belbek,
13 MiG-29 from the GANITS in Kirovsky,
3 Su-25 attack aircraft and Yak-38 aircraft (why the heck?) From storage at EARZ,
An-2 and Be-12 from the 10th Naval Air Brigade in Saki.
Moreover, only Be-12 and L-39 were able to fly to Ukraine on their own.
Yak-38 Wait an ekponat in Nikolaev at the 33rd center for combat training of aviation specialists.
By the way, in ok.ru I saw a link to the book published in Nikolaev by General A. Sikvarov about the 33rd BP and PLC center of the MA of the USSR Navy. I wonder if it is possible to get it at all and at what price?
The rest were disassembled and transferred by land transport.
Helicopters: 7 Ka-27s from 10 MABRs (2 with SAP), 4 KA-29s, one Mi-14, 6 Mi-8T, 2 Mi-8PPA and one each Mi-8SMV, Mi-8MTV and Mi-8PS with airfields Kirovskoe, Saki and with SAP.
There are 28 left (15 aircraft and 13 helicopters) + 6 aircraft scheduled for scrapping:
On the territory of the SAP there are 5 Mi-8T, 2 Mi-8MTV, one Mi-8VZPU and 1 Mi-9. In Belbek there is a Mi-24P "01 red" helicopter from the 11th brigade of army aviation. He is on September 18, 2013 that crashed there.
Aircraft - 3 L-39, 7 Mig-29 and 2 Mig-29UB in Belbek. 2 Be-12 aircraft in Saki (hmm, in our media there was a figure of 4 Be-12 abandoned on the territory of this airfield) and an An-72PS aircraft in Kirovsky.
None of this aircraft is flying.
Also on the territory of Crimea in Saki there are 4 An-12-BSh aircraft from the bankrupt Ukranian Cargo Airways and several other ex-military aircraft.
Technique designations are given according to the specified article--

The President of Russia announced his readiness to transfer to Kiev the military equipment that the Ukrainian army left in Crimea. This statement has generated controversial reactions. Someone expressed fears that weapons would be used in the conflict in Donbass. Others assured that Kiev took all the most valuable things back in 2014. studied the assortment of second-hand weapons in the Crimea.

Goodwill gesture

Vladimir Putin on Russia's readiness to return warships and aircraft to Ukraine during a meeting with the heads of Russian media and news agencies on January 11. “True, it is all in such a deplorable state, but this is no longer our business, it was practically in this state, during these years it has not been serviced by anyone, of course,” the head of state noted. According to him, we are talking about dozens of ships and combat aircraft that the Ukrainian military can take away. Russia is ready to help transport them to Odessa. The President added that there is also a significant ammunition stock, but, according to Russian military experts, it cannot be transported, but only disposed of on site. Putin noted that Russia is ready to invite the Ukrainian military to participate in this procedure.

The words of the Russian leader have caused bewilderment on both sides of the border. In recent years, relations between the countries have deteriorated to the limit, Kiev regularly accuses Moscow of conducting hostilities in the Donbass, Russian special services periodically report on the prevention of terrorist attacks that are being prepared by the Ukrainian security forces. The Kremlin press secretary had to comment on the initiative. “This is another gesture of goodwill, a manifestation of a political disposition to move the Ukrainian settlement process off the ground,” he explained.

There is no official data on what Kiev left behind in Crimea. It is known that the number of the Ukrainian military group on the peninsula was about 20 thousand people. The Kiev authorities claimed that the total value of abandoned military equipment was estimated at 18 billion hryvnia (about $ 1.7 billion). The Ukrainian side promised to demand compensation in international courts if it fails to take out its equipment and property.

Fleet in reserve

However, immediately after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, Ukraine had the opportunity to take its own. In the spring of 2014, Kiev exported more than two thousand pieces of weapons and military equipment, the total value of the exported exceeded $ 1 billion. “In particular, aviation equipment - 75 units, ships - 32 units, automotive equipment - 1341 units, rocket and artillery weapons - 120 units, armored vehicles - 121 units, communications equipment - 201 units, operational support equipment - 302 units, logistics equipment - 400 units ", - was specified on the website of the President of Ukraine. In the summer of 2014, this process was stopped by Moscow, as all equipment and ammunition were transferred to Donbass and used against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR).

In turn, Ukrainian officials are confused about what is left on the peninsula. So, the Commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Igor Voronchenko, that there are eight warships in the Crimea, only one of them needs repair of the main engines, BMP - for two battalions, and "they were all practically ready" to work. Also, the Ukrainian army possessed two armored personnel carriers battalions, seven artillery battalions and four mortar batteries. Aviation capable of taking off flew to Ukraine. However, the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine does not consider this property valuable. According to him, all this "is outdated and is scrap metal, which Ukrainian business people will gladly accept and hand over."

clarifies that until 2014, there were several dozen MiG-29, Su-27 and L-39 combat training aircraft at the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol. All of them were in a non-flying state, they had not ascended into the sky for a long time. Instead of hangars, they were kept in open areas, engines were removed from many cars. Apparently, due to the parts of some aircraft, Ukrainian military engineers and aircraft technicians tried to extend the service life of other aircraft. Most of them were taken out in 2014.

Photo: page "Military informant" in "VKontakte"

There are also Ukrainian warships in Crimea. The Black Sea Fleet does not use them, but it is forced to keep a small crew on each so that there are no fires or they do not sink. Diesel-electric submarine of project 641 "Zaporozhye", built in the 70s, is considered legendary. Even before 2014, she was moved from base to base in tow. Other ships are not in the best condition either. Project 1124M anti-submarine corvette "Lutsk" has not been put out to sea since 2008. The Khmelnitsky corvette of project 1241.2 was commissioned in 1985. The ship was mostly in reserve and almost never went to sea. On the large landing ship "Konstantin Olshansky" back in 2014 one of the engines and electronic equipment went out of order. Not the best condition of Ukrainian ships recently. The footage shows the sea minesweepers "Chernigov" and "Cherkassy", the submarine "Zaporozhye" and the rescue tugboat "Kremenets". Over the years of inactivity, rust has appeared on the hulls.

The armor is strong

Several dozen launchers of anti-aircraft complexes are also stored on the peninsula. We are talking about the S-300 PT (produced since 1981) and the S-300 PS (produced since 1983). Now their production is curtailed. Experts note that such air defense systems are morally and technically outdated; they have been replaced by much more advanced modifications.

It is worth mentioning the fleet of Ukrainian armored vehicles - several dozen T-64B main battle tanks, BMP-1 and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR-70, BTR-80, MT-LB armored personnel carriers and even very old BTR-60. All this equipment is of Soviet production, pretty worn out and outdated. If the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier and the BMP-2 combat vehicle are still in operation in the Russian army and Ukrainian vehicles could somehow come in handy, then the T-64B will not even go for parts.

It is clear that Ukraine is unlikely to adopt much of the above. For example, Ukraine does not have the necessary infrastructure for basing more or less large ships. However, artillery systems and armored vehicles can be used at least as a source of spare parts, components and assemblies for existing equipment. However, almost two weeks have passed since Vladimir Putin's statement, and no intelligible answer has been received from Kiev. Of the Ukrainian officials, only the country's prime minister spoke on the topic. He offered to return, along with weapons, under the control of Kiev and Crimea itself. Probably, Ukrainian tanks and ships will continue to rust on the peninsula.

You all know how last year, by order of Putin, almost all of its military equipment that remained in Crimea was returned to Ukraine. Much has been written about this. And I, among other things, often recalled in my articles the transfer by Putin to the "Ukrainian Crimean partners", among which Waltzman, "partner and the best chance for Ukraine", of military equipment stands out. But I want to touch upon this topic again, since recently (March 19, to be more precise) an interview with the former acting president was published. deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine, and now a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Andrey Senchenko. Who at that time was engaged in the return of Ukrainian weapons from the Crimea. I will not give the entire interview. I will only give the part that concerns the topic of the post. Also, I am going to highlight especially important quotes from his interview in black.
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Last week, the President said in one of his speeches that Russia is obliged to return the weapons remaining in Crimea to the Ukrainian army. I don’t know what is connected with the fact that just now the President expressed this idea, since this topic has been relevant for a long time. Overlapping is the fact that last week I read the material of Dmitry Tymchuk that Ukraine was able to take from the Crimea about 1.5 thousand pieces of equipment and weapons. I dialed Tymchuk and asked: "Where did you get these numbers?" He says: "I have an official answer to my request from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff." As usual, it was written as a carbon copy, although these are two completely different departments, but they used to appoint one executor in two departments. For me, this means that, unfortunately, today the leadership of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense are not oriented at all in this matter. Therefore, I have prepared documents for you.

I was engaged in the withdrawal of weapons from the Crimea from the first day to the end. On March 31, after a preliminary agreement was reached with the Russian side, we flew on a military plane to the already occupied Crimea. Together with me were: Gennady Vorobyov (first deputy chief of the General Staff), Lieutenant General Vladimir Askarov and a group of officers of the General Staff. We had a meeting in Sevastopol, in a very psychologically difficult situation, when in the House of Officers of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, a commando armed to the teeth stood near each convoy. The atmosphere was unpleasant. They tried to impose on us and put at the negotiating table the traitor Admiral Denis Berezovsky (who went over to the side of Russia - ed.). I immediately stopped this attempt. On the Russian side was General of the Army Bulgakov, Deputy Defense Minister, and a number of other personalities. The so-called working group on the organization of the redeployment of weapons. A schedule was drawn up, there were many controversial points. But, in reality, from the beginning of April to June 16, there was a transfer of weapons. A group of our officers was constantly sitting there, almost constantly there was Lieutenant General Askarov, who pulled out the entire burden of this work (hereinafter, some important quotes from Senchenko's interview are highlighted by me). On June 16, the Russian side announced that they were suspending the redeployment due to the aggravation the situation in Donbass, which they also created. By the way, the public start of this whole epic with the redeployment of our weapons was given on March 28. As usual at the staged television meeting between Putin and Shoigu. Putin said that "the arms should be returned to Ukraine." This was preceded by a certain rather difficult work, and a conditionally political start - this is a show.

- Did our armored vehicles, aviation, small arms remain in Crimea?

Here's a reference for what's left. Here we are talking about ships, separately - about aviation technology.

(Hereinafter, there is a list of documents that says how many Ukrainian military equipment has become in Crimea. Since this would take up a lot of space in the post, I decided to skip it, returning directly to the interview).

The same certificate was issued by the Ministry of Defense to the Prosecutor General's Office, and the same 3502 pieces of equipment and weapons appear there (we are talking about the equipment that was removed from the Crimea. - Ed.). Therefore, I think that the current leadership of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense needs to sort it out, because this is our property. It is clear that at this moment it has been largely plundered, and I think that much of what we did not manage to take out was used in the Donbass. But, in addition to the fact that we must certainly take on the legal plane in terms of bringing the aggressor to justice for everything that happened, in addition, we need to carefully prepare claims against the aggressor state, and these claims should relate to movable and immovable property of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other law enforcement agencies ...

(Below are two more documents about how many Ukrainian military left the peninsula and how much military equipment was withdrawn. I will skip the first document, as it is of little interest to us and will publish the second on the blog).

What we managed to output: RAO - rocket artillery weapons - 120 units. BT - armored vehicles - 128 units. AT - vehicles - 1788 - military vehicles, of various modifications. Ships - 35 units. (This only applies to the Armed Forces). Unfortunately, of these there are very few warships, mainly the auxiliary fleet. Aviation equipment - 92 units. These are helicopters and airplanes. Some were flying, some were not. "Flightless" means the engine is being repaired, but the car actually costs a lot of money.

We took all the tanks, some of the armored personnel carriers. Unfortunately, if some individuals from that General Staff hadn't been fooling around, we would have taken more. Because we had a case when a train loaded with our armored personnel carriers in Kerch was unloaded. Because the former chief of the General Staff, Kutsin, wanted to show that he was a great military leader. That is, they flexed their muscles in a situation where it was necessary to conduct subtle diplomacy.

As for the armored vehicles. There was information that she was completely disabled. That is, by sabotage, sand in tanks, etc.?

No. This is a lie. She was in the state in which she was with us. We took, in my opinion, 41 tanks from Perevalnoye first. There were isolated cases of looting. For example, an automobile battalion, which was stationed in Bakhchisarai, was loaded at the Siren station in the Bakhchisarai region. Well, it began, somewhere the spare tire was twisted, but this, most likely, was done by local residents. As a result, with great difficulty, we were able to break through such an agreement that the officers from this military unit were already at the places of loading in civilian life and controlled this process. Then, when the first echelons went, there were cases when petty theft began on the stretch, say, between Simferopol and the administrative border of Crimea and Kherson region. But, we managed to achieve, albeit with great difficulty, that there was a convoy there. That is, they were accompanied by a convoy to the administrative border, and then they were received by ours. From here, from Kiev, I even had to deal with wire, which was used to fasten the wheels of equipment to the platforms.

Some of the military units managed to take out the products that were in the warehouses. The turn of small arms was practically not reached. But it was not our priority, because, according to the statement of our military command, we were primarily interested in technology. This does not mean that we were going to leave him, but the order was drawn up. Our priority was the combat core of the fleet, airplanes and helicopters. A small part of them were able to fly away on their own. Especially at the first stage. Then they released it again. But all these approvals were very difficult. They played the fool. They demanded from us a note from the Foreign Ministry for flying over a foreign state. Naturally, we would never agree to this. In the end, we managed to organize such a conveyor. There are such special trawls for transporting aircraft. Planes and other parts are removed from the MIG or DRYING. Our experts have gotten their hands on it to such an extent that they dismantled the MIG in just three hours. And these aircraft, where they were later redeployed, were assembled under the supervision of factory specialists.

If we estimate the cost of what we have taken out, this is about a billion dollars. This is a very large amount ...

- Why are our ships stuck there?

There were many obstacles. The opponents played the fool. We had to give them a list of crews in advance, about 20 days in advance. That is, ferry teams. They were checked by the FSB. What they checked there, I do not know. The ships were in a different state, especially after attempts to capture them. But, as for those who could get out on their own, the Russians categorically resisted, they say, no - only in tow. And, in fact, some of the ships were, as usual, in repair, in a mediocre condition, frankly speaking. Some suffered after the capture. Therefore, we were unsure about some of them. March-April is still quite a stormy period. And we had doubts as to how the ships that were not under our control for some time, which they captured, would withstand the transition. There were fears. Therefore, in principle, all this was towed.

There were problems with refueling our ships and tugs. We managed to insist that they refuel with our fuel, which remained there at our storage bases. Although part of the fuel was stolen ... That is, everything was very difficult. I repeat once again that the team headed by Lieutenant General Askarov worked very well then.

Returning to the ships. A condition was put forward by the Russian side that we remove our ships, which cannot be redeployed. The motives of the other side were as follows: they say, you will take the combat core, and leave everything else, and you will blame us all over the world that we did not give it to you. Therefore, we agree this way: you take two scrap metal - one warship. "You need to understand that this hassle was around the clock. Every five minutes new demands, etc. I had to somehow get out so as not to completely disrupt this situation. I wanted to hang up many times. or smash it on the table after their conversations. The question arose as to what these unusable boats need to be written off. there will be a resolution of the Cabinet. And here we are stuck, because, unfortunately, the Cabinet did not make this decision, despite repeated requests from the Ministry of Defense. With regard to land technology, the Russians behaved in a similar way: “you must withdraw everything.” The initial formula - or all or nothing. It was useless to argue with them then. We needed to save the equipment, because we understood that the story would not end, especially since they were already jigali then in Donbass in full. Therefore, every gun, every armored personnel carrier, every tank taken out from there, our army needed ...

Then we managed to fundamentally agree on the issue that we will hand over these boats (if a decision is made in Kiev) there, in Crimea, to the shipbreaking base, which transfers money to the Ministry of Defense just for metal. Then the banking system was still working. But then attempts began to screw in intermediaries from our own Ministry of Defense in the occupied territory! Can you imagine ?! One, fortunately already former, deputy defense minister, took part in this. This attempt to warm up our hands left a significant portion of our technique there.

- Remain mixed? And quite battle-worthy and scrap metal?

Mixed up. But, worst of all for us, this "mixing" looks in the issue of the combat core of the fleet.

A thick folder is a list of what we needed to take out and what we did not manage to take out, and a thin one is what should have been recycled, ”explains Senchenko.
(in the original there is a photo with folders on the site. But I decided not to insert it here either).

That is, today these documents can be used to assess our movable property, equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Crimea, which was appropriated by the Russian Federation. Therefore, when representatives of this self-styled occupation government say that everything has been taken out and there is nothing left, I documentarily confirm that this is a lie, and there are a lot of our equipment left there. Arsenals of weapons, ammunition, mines, torpedoes, small arms, a large number of armored vehicles.

- The border guards managed to withdraw most of their ships, why did the Armed Forces not withdraw most of their ships?

The border guards have practically withdrawn 90% of their ships. In order to withdraw the ships of the border service, the order of Nikolai Litvin was enough, and he gave such an order. And in order to withdraw the ships of the Naval Forces of Ukraine, an order from the Chief of the General Staff was needed. And the chief of the General Staff at that time was a traitor by the name of Ilyin. Even if a decision was needed at the level of the commander of the Navy, then again a mistake was made, and at that time it was Berezovsky, and when Sergei Gaiduk was appointed, then the ships were practically blocked. In addition, the technical condition and combat readiness of the border fleet was much higher than that of the Ukrainian Navy. Many ships and vessels of the Navy were in a state of repair.

Comment. So what do we see? And we see how, despite the fact that since May 2, the punitive operation of the Nazi junta that settled in Kiev against the civilians of Donbass was in full swing, the Kremlin continued for several months to return to her abandoned Ukrainian military equipment from Crimea. Now I will comment on the quotes I have highlighted in a little detail.

1. Senchenko claims that the transfer of equipment continued until June 16. Strange, but I remember very well the official announcement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on July 5 last year about the suspension of the transfer of arms and equipment to Kiev from Crimea. But it doesn't matter when it was suspended. What is important is that the return of military equipment from Crimea should have been suspended on May 2, when the Ukrainian army tried to storm Slavyansk. In fact, it was from that day that hostilities began.

2. Now, once again, pay the blame for what types of weapons were returned to Kiev. I have to repeat the list of types of military equipment that Moscow returned. These are 41 tanks, 120 units of missile and artillery weapons, 128 units of armored vehicles, 1788 military vehicles of various modifications, 92 units of aviation equipment, 35 ships. We will return to the latter. In the meantime, let's remember what happened at that time.

Meanwhile, in Slavyansk, the then DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov was constantly "whining" asking Russia for military assistance. However, he did not always ask to send troops. Igor Strelkov asked many times, no, he begged Russia to start delivering heavy weapons to Donbass. Many opponents of Strelkov now accuse him of deliberately surrendering Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka. If then at least part of the equipment that Russia returned to Ukraine had been sent to Slavyansk, then Strelkov would never have surrendered these cities.

For example, the Kremlin did not cost anything out of 41 tanks, 20 to be sent to Slavyansk. Or let's take 120 pieces of rocket and artillery weapons. It includes MLRS installations, towed and self-propelled guns and howitzers, air defense systems, mortars (self-propelled and portable), etc. At least from this list, half of the missile and artillery weapons could have been sent to Slavyansk in May-June? Could it have also been possible to hand over part of the armored vehicles transferred to Ukraine, even during the Slavic epic, to Strelkov, even if you wouldn't hand over planes with helicopters? In general, they could be left in the Crimea. I will repeat it again. If even in May-June at least part of this equipment had been transferred to Strelkov, he would never have surrendered Slavyansk and other cities in his life. Moreover, the Shooter would have liberated the Kharkov region. But during all this time, when Strelkov was defending Slavyansk, he received only three tanks from the "mainland" (one of which turned out to be out of order) and two more "Nons". This is if it concerns only heavy weapons. The one to which you have the right after that to accuse Strelkov of the surrender of the cities, if you did not help him with anything even then?

3. Regarding the ships taken out by the junta from the peninsula. There are 35 of them listed here. As we remember, when the GRU special forces and the marines seized Ukrainian ships, the Andreevsky flags were hung on them. In total, the Andreevsky flags were flown in more than fifty ships of the Ukrainian fleet. And then in the Kremlin, in March, they decided to return to Ukraine all the captured military equipment from Crimea, including warships. And what did we see next? And then we saw how our officers themselves had to lower the Andreevskie flags from Ukrainian ships in order to hand them over to Ruin. Anyone who understands even a little bit of military history, or the history of Russia, will understand what a shame it was to lower the Andreevsky flag from the ships. Admirals Nakhimov and Ushakov were probably turning over in their grave, seeing these vile scenes.

4. Many propagandists for the transfer of Crimean weapons to Ukraine justified this by the fact that most of them are not combat-ready. That is, many tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns are broken junk and Ukraine will need a lot of money to repair them. Which she supposedly does not have. However, how many of them were crap when Ukraine began to repair this "rubbish" at an accelerated pace. I will give several proofs of how dill was repaired and put into operation military equipment.

For example, on July 10, it was reported that the Zhytomyr Armored Plant had repaired more than 400 armored vehicles damaged in the battles in the Donbass. By early August, Ukraine had restored the first MiG-29s, which were removed from Bilbek in the Crimea. This is the question of the transferred aircraft. On December 5, 2014, President of Ukraine Valtsman, as well as Minister of Defense Poltorak and Chief of General Staff Muzhenko, transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine up to 150 units of repaired and modernized military equipment, including about 50 BMP-2, MT-LB armored tractors, 203-mm self-propelled guns 2S7 "Pion ", 122-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S1" Gvozdika ", 82-mm automatic mortars 2B9" Vasilek ", as well as four repaired fighters - two MiG-29 (the well-known single 9-13 with hull number" 57 white "and with a large image of a trident on the "back", and the combat training MiG-29UB with the side number "86 blue") and two Su-27 (blue side numbers "33" and "37"). I don't think it's worth continuing.

Based on the above, I have a simple question for the HPP adherents, who at one time justified the return to Ukraine of its military equipment from the Crimea by the fact that it is broken and cannot be repaired. That is, it poses no threat. Why then did you decide that Ukraine will not be able to repair it? She was able to repair and put in operation much more military equipment. I am sure that among them there was also the Crimean technique. And in general, pay attention once again to Senchenko's words that every cannon, every armored personnel carrier, every tank taken out from there was needed for the Ukrainian army. So don't make excuses for the Kremlin. Because the return of military equipment to Ukraine from Crimea was not even a mistake, but a criminal betrayal. For which there is and cannot be any justification.

5. In general, the only plus in the interview with Senchenno is his words, where he claims that Ukraine has not removed all the weapons from Crimea. And brazenly demands from Russia to return the remaining weapons, including armored vehicles that have not been removed. Although the Russian side claims that everything was given to Ukraine. In general, you yourself are to blame, even if it's true. If your General Staff hadn't been fooling around, you could have pulled everything out.

But I think that Ruin shouldn't worry about the remaining weapons in Crimea anyway. The ruling elite of the Russian Federation has long erased the "blame" for this by free supplies of gas, coal, electricity, TVELs, oil products and by pumping billions of dollars into the subsidiaries of Russian banks in Crimea. Which did not allow the financial system of Ukraine to collapse. Plus, until recently, Oleg Deripaska's GAZ group supplied motors for the needs of Ukrainian military equipment. These motors, in particular, were used for self-propelled howitzers 2S1 "Gvozdika" and for armored tractors MT-LB. Well, if you are not happy with this and very much demand from Putin the return of the remaining equipment in Crimea, then he will not only return it, but also add a new one. For example, I would not be very surprised if the Ukrainian army has new tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery pieces, etc. from the RF. As they say, partner Putin will help his Ukrainian partner Waltzman.

Summing up what I want to say. There is nothing special except that I want to remind you again. The death of tens of thousands of civilians in Donbass is on the conscience of not only the "Ukrainian partners", but also on the conscience of those who actively helped them in this. Including the return to the Nazi regime of its weapons left in the Crimea. And this fact will never be washed away by the Russian authorities.