Defense minister rules out armed forces' intervention in Ukraine crisis
1 February 2014, 23:20
The defense minister has ruled out the possibility of Ukraine's armed forces intervening in the current domestic political crisis unless a state of emergency or martial law is declared.
'Under the constitution, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may only be activated in the event of a state of emergency or martial law. Otherwise, the military will do what it is doing today, in peacetime,' a Defense Ministry statement quoted Pavlo Lebedev as saying.
'Today there unfortunately exist a great deal of provocative statements by individual politicians and items in the media about the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Some of them - such as those about the transfer of Airborne Forces under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior - are patently senseless. But we won't be provoked,' Lebedev said.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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