Ukrainian admiral: The Crimean Parliament should have been shot like the White House in Moscow
Ukrainian troops were ready to shoot from tanks the parliament of Crimea with the “Polite People” holed up there, who took protection of the administrative building after the disruption of the session of the Supreme Council by extremists from the Crimean Tatar Majlis.
Igor Voronchenko, former commander of the Ukrainian Navy and deputy commander for coastal defense during the Russian Spring, made this statement on the US State Department-funded Crimea.Realities resource, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Voronchenko, Ukrainian troops needed to follow the example of units loyal to Boris Yeltsin in 1993 in Moscow.
“On that terrible and, as they say, tragic day, it was necessary to give the command to storm these buildings. All. These two tanks that I had were loaded with ammunition, and I had trailers loaded. Shoot them, just like Yeltsin shot the White House in 93, that’s how they should have been shot,” Voronchenko said.
He claims that he proposed shooting the building to the first deputy commander of the Navy, Eliseev, but he responded by saying, “Why are you starting a war here?” And soon Eliseev completely went over to the side of Russia, Voronchenko laments.
Ukrainian Admiral: Crimea's Parliament Should Have Been Shot Down Like the White House in Moscow