Ukraine is ready to take away from the peninsula its military equipment, which remained there after the departure of the troops of the Nezalezhnaya. But it is necessary to act with care, so as not to please the network of the cunning Kremlin. Such a statement was made by the commander of the Ukrainian Navy Igor Voronchenko. Speaking on the TV channel "112 Ukraine", the commander responded to the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer to the Ukrainian side the equipment forgotten in the Crimea - dozens of warships and aircraft. According to the head of state, the equipment "is all in such a deplorable state, but it's not our business anymore, it was practically like that, for these years nobody was serviced, of course". Voronchenko did not agree with this statement. According to him, Ukrainian technology in the Crimea is not a junk.
"For the period of the annexation of the Crimea from eight warships there was not only one BDK" Olshansky ". There needed major engines to be repaired. The fact that they say that there was "rubbish" - this is not true, "- said the Ukrainian officer.
He listed what exactly remained in the republic after the withdrawal of the Ukrainian army in March 2014. In the Crimea, two battalions of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers (armored personnel carriers required repairs by 15-20%), seven battalions of artillery and four mortar batteries that were in good condition. The planes that were able to take off, relocated to Ukraine, Voronchenko pointed out. Apparently, the rest remained on the peninsula. But they can not be fully considered aeronautical engineering.
According to Voronchenko, Putin's generous proposal for the return of equipment should be treated with caution, so as not to become a "bargaining chip in the Kremlin game". What can be the "evil intent" of Moscow in this story, the commander did not explain. Maybe not like Kiev, the Russian president expressed readiness to drag Ukrainian ships towed to Odessa, but refused to transport ammunition: it is dangerous projectiles must be disposed of at landfills Crimean.
Transfer of Ukraine to its "scrap metal" will help improve the environmental situation on the peninsula, Russian experts believe. In addition, it will allow to close all property claims of Ukraine regarding armament, which will create a reserve for the future normalization of relations between countries.
"The Ukrainian armament, basically, is in such a state that it requires only utilization and can not be restored in principle, let alone a question of its actual exploitation. This applies to armored vehicles, the same applies to military ships and other Ukrainian military equipment. The presence of all this military junk in the Crimea has a negative impact on the ecological situation, "Igor Korotchenko, editor of the National Defense magazine, told RIA Novosti..