Drach: It would be better if a thousand died in Crimea, but there would be no Donbass
The Ukrainian army had to shoot at Russians in Crimea in 2014. Ukraine could have defended the peninsula at the cost of several hundred deaths. Ex-head of Rukh Ivan Drach stated this on TV channel 112.
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"I felt the full idiocy of our government, led by Turchynov. Because I served three years in the army and know what it's like. I know that when someone walks up, [ they shout, – author ]: 'Stop, whoever's coming, stop, I'll shoot.' A shot is fired into the air, and then I shoot into the chest. If a hundred or even a thousand of these people, some of ours, had died in Crimea, then perhaps this horror in Donbas wouldn't have happened, and there wouldn't have been these hundreds, thousands of deaths that have occurred," Drach stated.
English version :: Read in English Drach: It would have been better if a thousand had died in Crimea, but there would have been no Donbass.