“We surrendered the airfield without a shot as we were given an order to avoid any armed confrontation with the Russians,” he said. Although they still had some weapons in the barracks, the unit’s main combat arsenal was captured by the intruders on Sunday, he said. The town overlooks the sea about 10 miles east of the port of Sevastopol, which is leased by Russia as the headquarters of its Black Sea Fleet.
Shapoval said his unit still controlled its barracks down the road in the town of Liubymivka. Yesterday, they demanded that we leave so they could get full control of the place.”
On Saturday, they said that their task was not to allow any planes to land at our airstrip. 28, they declared that their goal was to prevent us from flying our jets away. “At first, when their marines captured the airfield on Feb. “We don’t really know what these guys are after,” Shapoval said in an interview with The Times. Oleh Shapoval, deputy commander of the unit attempting to protect the Belbek airport, scoffed at the Russian president’s remarks, noting that what Putin called “local self-defense forces” had landed at the Belbeck airstrip over the weekend in eight Russian IL-76 jumbo jets. “Those were local self-defense forces.”īut Ukraine army Lt. “Go to a store here and you can buy any uniform,” he said. The gunmen, dressed in unmarked military uniforms that appeared identical to those used by the Russian army, had captured the Belbek airport near here along with three dozen combat jets and an arsenal of weapons belonging to the Ukrainian military.Īt a news conference in Moscow, Putin had been asked why there were forces in Crimea dressed in Russian-style military uniforms. LIUBYMIVKA, Ukraine-As Russian leader Vladimir Putin publicly insisted Tuesday that Russian troops had never seized or blocked any facilities in Ukraine’s Crimea, a tense standoff continued between a Ukrainian army unit and a group of well-armed, Russian-speaking forces at a military airport in the southern part of the Crimean peninsula.
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