According to him, at the time of the occupation of the Crimea, five thousand people were concentrated in the southern direction, without equipment and aviation, but this was only a diversion of Russian military strategists, a real shock was being prepared in the north-eastern regions of Ukraine.

Then, on February 28, 2014 and. Minister of Defense Tenyukh reported that on the eastern Ukrainian-Russian border more than 200 thousand regular Russian military personnel, tanks, armored vehicles, provisions and ammunition warehouses. The plans of the Russian command were not only destabilization of the eastern regions of the country, but also further advance up to the Ukrainian capital.

The timely response of the NSDC allowed to stop the Russian army and take a course towards the formation of new APUs.

"Therefore, it was decided to strengthen the Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov, Donetsk directions," Turchinov stressed..

As reported in "Ura-Inform," Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov argues that Russia was preparing to seize the Crimean peninsula even before the events of the Revolution of Virtue.