nikolai kharitonov 4.16%. vladislav davankov still has 4% of the votes ; leonid slutsky has 3.12% of the votes. if the leadership of the current head of state is obvious, then the final places between the remaining participants in the campaign may still change, since the counting of votes is still ongoing. the program ahead is moscow, the kremlin. jā. invited the heads of our

special services and the ministry of defense to the kremlin. and he set them the task of, well, frankly speaking, saving the life of the president of ukraine. on the night of february 22-23, 2014, a an operation that has no analogues in recent world history.

in ukraine, that we are forced to begin work on returning crimea to russia, because we cannot abandon this territory and the people who live there to the mercy of fate under the steamroller of nationalists, set certain tasks, said what and how we should do, but immediately emphasized that we will do this... only if we are

absolutely convinced that this is what the people who live in crimea want, it was necessary to give people the opportunity to self-determinate, express our opinion, this was our goal, i’m telling you quite frankly, honestly, i thought to myself, if people want it, then so be it, it means they will be there with greater autonomy, with some rights, but in composition of the ukrainian state, let it be so then, but if they are for...

up to 100 people, everything changes before our eyes, blood begins to flow, shooting on the maidan, how yanukovych behaved at that time, he probably called you, he asked about the meeting, yes, yes, first of all, he called me twenty first in the evening, he said that he was going to go to kharkov to participate in a regional conference, well, i won’t hide it, i...

expressed my point of view that in such a situation it is better not to leave the capital, he said, well, i, he says, i’ll think about it, i don’t know, but i say, i’ll call you again, we’ll talk again, that evening, when there is a mass execution on the maidan and... viktor yanukovych comes to spend the night in his house for the last time, then he called and said that’s all... after all, he decided to go, the only thing i said was, at least don’t bring out the force of law and order additionally, he says, yes, yes, i understand that perfectly well, he left and withdrew all law enforcement forces. at 9:17 am on february 21, leaving the mizhegorye residence, viktor yanukovych stops for a couple of seconds, as if saying goodbye, more. he will not return here, although in response to his agreement to fulfill all the demands of the opposition, at these moments he was still waiting for european mediators for peaceful solutions from the maidan. instead, as you know, the opposition seized the presidential administration and government on the same day.

after that, it was already the twenty-second, viktorovich called again and said that he was in kharkov and would like to consult.

it became clear to us and information was already coming in that not only were preparations being made for his capture, but it was preferable for those who carried out this coup d'etat to physically eliminate him, well, there is no man, as a famous historical figure said, there are no problems, in fact, the subsequent the development of the event is... this was confirmed, if it had not happened, it would have been easier for the opposition forces to solve the tasks that they have before themselves put. on february 22, viktor yanukovych left kharkov and called vladimir putin from donetsk with a request for a meeting. i have already

suggested, i say, then let’s meet somewhere in rostov, so that you don’t waste time on flights. i'm ready to fly myself. and another call rang. and viktor fetrovich’s security officers said that we had problems. big, we can’t fly out, to be honest, i already realized that something was happening, extraordinary, going beyond the normal situation, later we learned that at that time from his motorcade they had already shot at yanukovych’s motorcade, they also shot at the prosecutor general pshonka and wounded him...

a number of other special services were looking for a task from the maidan authorities from kiev, but after an unsuccessful attempt to fly out of donetsk, the president of ukraine disappeared, his motorcade seemed to have disappeared into the vastness of eastern ukraine , so he escaped from donetsk and went to i don’t know where, apparently, well, he went, he went to crimea, yeah, he went to crimea, but when they showed me the map. his movements, have you seen the route of his movement? he, when he called, ours radio surveillance service, in fact, began to keep a map of him, we recorded his location each time, but when they showed me the map,

it became clear that he would soon stumble upon an ambush, moreover, according to the data we have, large-caliber guns were placed there... machine guns , so as not to talk for a long time, that is , no one was going to stop him, there is reason to believe that he would have simply been destroyed, and... the security officers were informed that they could not move further, well, this is quite interesting ideologists, because it was still carried out over open communication, and we ourselves used this to understand where he was, but before we located him on the territory using technical means, it was not clear to us where, so we... .we prepared to take him out directly from donetsk by land by sea from the air,

that is, you gave orders to different units to prepare to save yanukovych, yes, since he had already left donetsk far away, the boats needed quite a lot of time, 5-6 hours. in order to approach the shore, and you said, retreat to the shore, that is, they warned that life was possible ahead, they turned around, we gave them instructions to the target where they needed to go ashore, in a motorcade and sent a helicopter group with a special forces detachment on board. the search lasted about an hour and a half, an aerial inspection of tens of kilometers of coastline

did not yield any results, the pilots had no contact with yanukovych’s motorcade, and the ukrainian president’s aide-de-camp called the kremlin in despair. and at some point it became clear that they couldn’t find the helicopters, the number of helicopters is running out, they need to leave. the helicopters were already assembled. these are motorcade vehicles, at the same time they turned on their high beams, indicating their location , as they guessed, well, they were told, that is , again, you or, or your colleagues suggested, well, yes, of course, the pilots noticed them and took them, take them promptly to the second square . allowed 7 45 occupy

the preliminary 7 44 connect landing in the square are allowed. but this story did not end there, because viktor ferovich did not want to move to russia right away asked to be sent to crimea, went to crimea, so for a few more days, while everything was there, all the events related to the coup were unfolding, he was on the territory of ukraine, although in a few days. it became clear that there was no one in kiev to negotiate with, again he asked, and we took him out

to russia. when you were informed about his rescue, what feelings did you have? well, the feeling is that we saved his life, the lives of his family members, it seems to me that this is a good deed, noble, i don’t want to evaluate his activities, his... work, he said: i could not sign the order to use weapons, my hand did not rise, but can he be condemned for this, i don’t know, i don’t consider myself to have the right to do this, whether it’s good or bad, the consequences are severe from inaction , this is obvious. the consequences at that time were already felt by thousands of the most vulnerable. having captured kiev,

the nationalists began a hunt for everyone who disagreed with their methods of coming to power. it was the twentieth, we were returning home, the road was blocked there, i don’t know what to call them, they’re not people, just.

a guy jumped out with a non-fire weapon, with a gun, well, he started shooting at point-blank range, the driver was sitting in the front seat, they shot the driver, then a crowd of these barbarians flew up and started breaking the windows. they threw stones, then they started shouting, like , come out, if you don’t come out, we will burn you alive, it was generally difficult to survive in this situation, absolutely impossible if they found a russian flag, slogans like “we will not surrender our crimea to bandera” or just photographs ,

even from the phone, capturing the outrage on maidan, i completely pulled out the flash drive. phone from the camera, a flash drive i put under my tongue in my mouth, and photographs of my family and their photographs of what they did on the maidan, i could have swallowed at any moment in order to save just my family, when we were already running out of the bus, there was a ditch nearby, they threw us there they just beat each other and threw them at each other and our men were lying there... the men were shot, there were six people lying and our driver was pulled out and laid next to them, they forced them to sing the ukrainian anthem, glory to ukraine, to scream, at that time they beat them with bats, so i got seven stitches in

head, sat in a heap. they didn’t pull out our people, they forced crimeans broken from the bus, some into their pockets , some were forced to eat, they were forced to eat glass, yes there is glass, people took it, no matter what, and ate, because everyone wanted to live, some of the guys there tried run into the fields, but i personally saw when they fired from a gun... he fell , i don’t know if he’s still alive or not, this man, i don’t know, the burning buses made the crowd rejoice while the maidan supporters were captivated by the spectacle they staged, the surviving crimeans had a chance

escape by running away, but this did not save everyone, in the fields... according to the laws of the genre, everyone saw, in the forests the nationalists staged a raid on everyone that there were special cars that were looking, looking for those who ran away from the buses, fell into plowing, fell somewhere there... they hid in the strip so as not to get to these guys , because they are really fascists, really bandits, believe me, the best, everything that is possible, that’s the very hatred that poured out from them, although we didn’t do anything to them, those we caught,

they beat me half to death, but first they explained that if anyone survives, he will live differently from now on, they threatened with a pistol, they stood there and applied it to the weight, it happened, they were angry with us because we are crimean, i wash them in ukrainian movai, i say , i don’t know how, i say, i’ll come to you in crimea, i’m destroying your whole family for what you say to speak in russian language. they beat, you know, they saw our blood, they saw our pain, and stood, laughed, it gave them pleasure, what can we say, from that tragedy, we we just realized that we should stay in ukraine. you can’t, these are fascists, these are outright fascists, these are outright banderaites. the korsun pogrom, as this tragedy will immediately be called in crimea, according to the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine, claimed the lives of seven

people, out of eight crimean buses, nationalists in the cherkasy region burned four, more than twenty people went missing. when we saw the outbreak of the most extreme nationalism, it became clear that very difficult times could come for the people who live in crimea, only then, i want to emphasize this, the idea arose that we cannot just leave people, abandon people in trouble in this situation. simferopol, declared in kiev to be a nest of enemies of the maidan, received an ultimatum - to demolish the monument to lenin in the next 10 days, this is exactly what happened before the korsen pogrom. consolidated local residents to protest, while in a number of ukrainian regions they were taking an exam of allegiance to nationalists, crimeans were already forming defense units. we

had training camps, every day, preparing to repel an attack, so to speak, in case someone had domineering thoughts of toppling this monument , so for us, probably, it was more of a symbol of stability and the ability of the authorities to keep the situation under control, when you started your personal crimean... a sign, i won’t hide that they told me his last name, they said, what the deputies propose, the crimean parliament, the crimean rada wants such

and such a person. the militia insisted very much that there was a real one of us, their leader, aksyonov, they influenced the deputies then, this is true, but they are local, they are local, they know better, he and them collected them into companies and so on, one of them, in fact, was the chairman of the crimean parliament. so when i asked , i asked, how do you feel about him, he tells me, well, he ’s a chigiwara, we need one like that now, we are interested in a peaceful crimea, our stable multinational, in which all people live normally, absolutely, the crimean spring, probably, won thanks to this unity of people, opinions, well, the formation of truly patriotic people, you know, a single way of thinking, a single approach, the day of unification of crimeans became 2 v berkut fighters returned, they were burned on the maidan, they were shot at, and then they were accused of the sniper massacre. tormented and

depressed that day in sevastopol and simferopol, they suddenly saw at home something that they could no longer even imagine in kiev. at this time , criminal cases were opened against berkut fighters and commanders throughout ukraine, and arrests were made. in lviv. they were brought to their knees, in the city exactly the entire berkut was handed over to the right sector, in kiev it was proposed to create special forces named after the heroes of the maidan on the basis of berkut, everywhere they were enemies and only here they were heroes. it was such a balm or some kind of refreshing sip of water.

bearing in mind the ethnic composition of the population in crimea, it would have been even worse there; we had to take certain actions to prevent such a negative development

of events from happening. they broke his hands , he says, break his right hand there, he threw this grenade, so they sewed up the bloody eye, they sewed it up, he says, but he doesn’t need it anymore, sew up the eye , just for profit, well, that is, they mocked him like that, let’s open it gate, just like that, like this, like this, the armored personnel carrier stood , and we showed everyone, without hiding the fact that we are ready for any challenge to meet uninvited

guests, how to vote in our hands, like a conch, we will decide who goes to the end, who goes, who now he is leaving, leaving, i will also understand and we will all understand where we will go next, will we go to the mountains or will we make our way to some russian unit, i will think about this issue as a commander, but now we

are making our choice, each of us and... everyone, everyone raised their hand, everyone agreed, but everyone one, and you made a decision, we made a decision, yes, to begin with, to protect ourselves, our families, after the maidan , completely new elements appeared in the training program of the crimean berkut. now the special forces soldiers are not only practicing their own schemes, but also the countermeasures that were used on the maidan. against them, that is, all this was trained in advance, the americans invited specialists from ukraine, security forces to exchange experience for advanced training, they gave a paper to write about how you are working against such crowds, how you are ukrainian unit commanders, and your tactics, how... they

analyzed all this, this was already far back in 2006, all this, then brochures were published on how to resist berkut, where to rip off a helmet, they were already writing for the right sector instructions, dadada,

what our partners did, contributed to the transformation of the state, that is , they began to act from a position of strength, i don’t think that this is the best way of doing business internationally in general, in relation to the states of the post-soviet period, in in particular, because the state , which is not yet established, is fragile, it is necessary to treat their statehood and the constitution with care.