What I completely do not understand is the amount of the marines on the
base, around one hundred. It is not even a company. Where is the rest?
The same story about the coastal defense brigade. The reports indicated
that around 1000 servicemen were sent home. It is a lot, but, still, less
than a half strength. The brigade was supposed to have about a dozen of
T-64B tanks. They were nowhere to be seen... Does this indicate treason of
the previous government or something else?
On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Anubis wrote:
>
> Euromaidanpr
>
> Defense Ministry confirms seizure of several dozen Ukrainian Marines by
> Russian troops in Feodosia
>
> The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has confirmed that from 60 to 80 servicemen
> of the first separate Feosodia Marines battalion of the Ukrainian Navy have
> been captured by Russian troops in Crimea.
>
> "At around 0420 on March 24, Russian invaders in Crimea, grossly violating
> the preliminary agreement to hold talks on a truce, started assaulting the
> first separate Feodosia Marines battalion of the Ukrainian Navy. Russian
> troops landed from two Mi-8 helicopters on the territory of the Ukrainian
> military unit when the assault began. A pair of Russian Mi-24s supported the
> landing of the troops from the air," the ministry's press service reported.
>
> Moreover, the Russian side used stun grenades and automatic weapons,
> including machine guns. Russian Armed Forces servicemen surrounded the
> perimeter of the battalion, blocked the road to it with two armored
> personnel carriers and started seizing the barracks.
>
> "Several URAL trucks, with tied up Ukrainian Marines on board, left the
> territory of the Marines battalion at 0600. According to preliminary
> reports, several Ukrainian servicemen sustained various injuries as a result
> of the assault. The most injured were the battalion's commander, Lieutenant
> Colonel Dmytro Deliatytsky, and his assistant on work with staff, Major
> Rostyslav Lomtev, whom the attackers pushed to the ground and kicked them in
> the face. After that the two Ukrainian officers were taken by helicopter to
> an unknown location," reads the report.
>
> The Defense Ministry also reported that Russian military had prevented the
> injured Ukrainian servicemen from being sent to hospitals to undergo the
> necessary medical care.
>
> From 60 to 80 Ukrainian Marines have currently been detained and are
> actually in the captivity of Russian military at the Feodosia maritime port.
> Constant psychological pressure is being exerted on them.
>
> According to the servicemen of the Marines battalion, "the main demand of
> the Russian invaders is the forced removal from Crimea to the mainland
> Ukraine of officers of the Ukrainian military unit, and only after that
> other representatives of the personnel will be released from captivity."
>
> The Defense Ministry also said that the question of granting these Ukrainian
> servicemen the status of "combatants" and providing them with other
> guarantees and social benefits was currently being considered at a high
> level.
>
> Interfax-Ukraine
> [FORM]
>
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