Ukraine Prepares for War After Crimea Vote
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 17, 2014
Coup leaders in Kyiv have rejected the
Crimea referendum, refuse to pull troops off the peninsula following a
March 17 vote to secede, and are preparing for war.
Ukraine mobilizes for war.
“Crimea was, is, and will be our territory,” Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh
declared in a statement delivered at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.
“Ukrainian forces will stay [in Crimea] until all their tasks have been
completed.”
U.S. State Department favorite Vitali
Klitschko, who was passed over for central banker Arseniy Yatsenyuk to
lead the coup government, said Ukrainian troops will stay in Crimea.
Klitscho cited a March 16 peace treaty
agreement allowing Ukrainian soldiers to move freely in Crimea.
According to Tenyukh, the Russians thus far have respected the
agreement. Ukraine has used it to resupply troops on the peninsula.
The Russians, however, expect Ukraine to honor the deadline of the treaty, set for March 21, and leave Crimea.
Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov
said the junta will do everything possible to prevent war, but said “the
threat of war is real… We are strengthening our defense capacity.
Ukraine is ready to defend its territory.”
The Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian
parliament, has set aside 6.7 billion hryvnia, more than $600 million,
to strengthen the country’s military forces and mobilize the armed
forces for the possibility of war. The mobilization, Tenyukh told the
KyivPost, is intended to bring the military to “full readiness.”
“Our army should be ready for combat,” said Pavlo Petrenko, Ukraine’s Justice Minister.
In addition to an influx of money, the
coup government has called up 40,000 troops and has called on reservists
to prepare for war.
“This is our land,” acting coup Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
told a crowd gathered at the Kyiv statue dedicated to writer and
nationalist Taras Shevchenko earlier this month. “Our fathers and
grandfathers have spilled their blood for this land. And we won’t budge a
single centimeter from Ukrainian land. Let Russia and its president
know this.”
On Sunday, Yatsenyuk promised to hunt down
and bring Crimean separatists to justice. “We will find all of them —
if it takes one year, two years — and bring them to justice and try them
in Ukrainian and international courts. The ground will burn under their
feet,” he said.
The coup leaders on Sunday announced an
effort to bolster Ukraine’s newly created National Guard. “It will have
training centers, legal weapons will be distributed. You will have the
opportunity to defend the country, with the forces of the National Guard
and the security forces,” Yatsenyuk told a cabinet meeting.
On Saturday, during a trip to Ukraine, Senator John McCain
called on the Obama administration to arm the junta. “They only have a
few thousand combat troops and would be overwhelmed by the Russians if
it came to that. One of their urgent requests is to have us supply them
with weapons,” McCain said. “I will be urging our administration to
arrange that transfer as quickly as possible.”
This article was posted: Monday, March 17, 2014 at 1:07 pm
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