“You know, when they say that Crimea could have been defended ... In fact, at the beginning of 2014, the army was not capable of defending the country,” 24 Channel quotes him as saying.
Turchynov noted that at the beginning of 2014, about 100 thousand hryvnias remained in the treasury.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the reunification of Crimea with Russia took place in strict accordance with all norms of international law.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum was held there in March 2014, in which most of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke out in favor of reunification with Russia.