CALL OF FRIEND When you are almost 60, it is difficult to "make" new friends. But it happens. 3 years ago, in March, the sharpest days of the occupation of the Crimea, blackseanews. Net, who was already working with a secret apartment not in Yalta, military correspondents appeared. It was completely new: junior officers and midshipmen supplied the editorial board with the latest information every hour, and we even took special measures - the daily attendance of the site went off for 150 thousand.
Today called the first of the military commissars. From the ship of the naval forces in the sea. In March 2014, his commander, telling me on the phone about his loyalty to duty - surrendered the ship. Our military commissar, along with two officers, left on the boat for the still resisting "Olshansky". Then he and many naval friends left the Crimea, dignified, dressed in parade, with the flags of the VMSU, through humiliating procedures, with wives and children, leaving everything, with a pair of suitcases in their hands, to Odessa and Ochakov.
I was still in the Crimea and on the verge of disruption. Did not break because dozens of friends-officers of the Ukrainian Navy called after Chongar: "Vasilich, we report: we went to the mainland, we went to Odessa". I will not forget.
To us already in Kiev came three drops (captain-lieutenant) from the corvette "Ternopil". Their commander, who heroically told the TV: "the Russians do not surrender," in a few hours, surrendered the ship, the best in the Ukrainian Navy. Three officers of the corvette, native Sevastopol, 500% Russian, seamen in 3 generations with admirals and capernaids (captains of rank 1, colonels) in fathers-grandfathers - the old man and two commanders of military units (combat units, subunits of the ship), withdrew 90 % Of the crew. And today they are worthy to serve in the VMSU.
Our first military chancellor fought three times near Mariupol. And today - in the sea. I do not call names. In Crimea there were their relatives, and there is nothing to give job fsb. You will read all, the panorama of the office of the Ukrainian Navy. І yourі рідніі read, I know. Mi s is about you. And for us and for us.
In those days, I called many times and many to Kiev. By virtue of my biography I have many acquaintances in higher, so to speak, echelons.
The only high military (with three admiral stars, a full admiral, a colonel-general on the land), who just picked up the phone and started calling me, at my request, and morally support the crews of the besieged ships of the Naval Forces - left behind by Janes, that is, not in office, but respected among Personnel, my peer and friend in the FB, Admiral Igor Kabanenko. We have already developed in Kiev.
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