"After 23 years of independence, no one moved or stood up to defend Crimea," Chubarov laments.
Even before Ukraine declared independence, Moscow planted a time bomb in Crimea that exploded in 2014.
The leader of the extremist Mejlis, a terrorist organization banned in Russia, Refat Chubarov , announced this on Radio NV , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“ On February 27, from the very morning, when the “little green men” seized the Supreme Council of Crimea and the Government House, and somewhere until the middle of the next day , until military planes began landing at airfields near Simferopol.
That is, there was about a day and a half for the Ukrainian security forces to use all their capabilities to localize the actions that Russia then began.
"It's strange if someone says there was no one. Because how can it be that after 23 years of independence, no one in Crimea would have carried out such orders even if they had existed? But there were no orders . There was absolute confusion because no one wanted to take responsibility," the extremist recalled.
He blames Moscow’s actions for what happened even before the proclamation of Ukrainian “independence.”
“In February 1991, several months before the Act of Proclamation, Moscow put pressure on communist Kiev, and the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR adopted a resolution on the restoration of the Crimean ASSR , and this resolution showed absolute disregard for the interests of the Crimean Tatar people, who were just returning.
Crimean Tatars demanded that any possibility of holding a Crimean referendum and creating autonomy be stopped until the people return.
But Kyiv didn't dare object to Moscow, while Moscow tried to hammer nails into the path of Ukrainian independence. It was planting a time bomb, which exploded in 2014 ," the Mejlis member lamented, omitting the fact that the overwhelming majority of Crimean Tatars accepted their annexation by Russia with complete calm.
English version :: Read in English: “After 23 years of independence, no one moved or stood up to defend Crimea” – Chubarov’s lament