Voices of Ukraine

The Acting Minister of Defence, Admiral Ihor Teniukh, resigned. He stated this during a speech at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada. Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov introduced the relevant resolution to the legislature. Only 197 MPs voted in favor of the resolution, so the resolution was not adopted. According to Teniukh, the reason for this step was the criticism of his actions as head of the ministry of defense.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 11:10

The Russians assaulted and captured the landing ship Konstyantin Olshanskiy in the Lake of Donuzlav. The assault began at 17:15, the ship’s captain Dmytro Kovalenko told Ukrayinska Pravda. “Here they go”, he said.

At the same time, Oleksandr Hutnyk, the senior miner of the artillery mine and torpedo combat unit, who is a senior sailor of the ship Cherkassy, which is in the same lake, told Ukrayinska Pravda that as of 17:22 the landing ship was enveloped in smoke and she was being approached by a Russian motor launch.

According to the head of the Media Center of the MOD of Ukraine in Crimea Vladyslav Seleznyov, “Olshanskiy let out two smokescreens.”

Photo of Oleksiy Tamrazov

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 14:59

UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned against using the crisis in Ukraine as a justification for the desire to obtain nuclear weapons. He said this at the beginning of the nuclear security summit, which takes place from 24 to 25 March in The Hague, according to news agency AFP. “In Ukraine’s case, the security guarantees were fundamental condition of Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” – said Ban Ki-moon.

According to the UN Secretary General, the reliability of the guarantees provided to Ukraine by the Budapest Memorandum is “seriously undermined” by the current events in the Crimea. According to Ban Ki-moon, the consequences of conflict around the Crimea for the national security of Ukraine and for national regulations on non-nuclear weapons are deep. “But this cannot justify the desire for nuclear weapons, which would only have increased the insecurity and isolation,” he added.

‘UDAR’ National Deputy Serhiy Kunitsyn stated that he will resign from the post of the President’s Permanent Representative in the Crimea. He stated this during the ‘Shuster Live’ broadcast on Monday evening.

‘Today I have decided – I am resigning from the post of the President’s Representative. I am ashamed of all this’, said Kunitsyn. He criticized the lack of action from the Ukrainian authorities concerning the situation in the Crimea, stating that the country has every opportunity to react in a proper way.