Fierce days. The attack of the Russian Federation was "late", and the accurate forecast of Budanov was afraid to believe - 10 facts about the invasion of a new investigation of the UP
This is stated in the new publication of Ukrainian Truth, which restores the course of events and most important decisions of the Ukrainian authorities on February 22-24 - in the last days before the invasion and the first day of the attack of Russia. The Video Day of the UP journalists spoke with more than thirty interlocutors in the Presidential Office, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Verkhovna Rada, the Second Office and big business representatives.
NV has collected the most important of the new facts published in this material. This became known only later, when during the fighting for Kyiv Ukrainian defenders received trophy maps of Pskov paratroopers. Similar documents are obtained two days before the offensive. "On the map it is written:" To give out February 20 "-that is, the offensive had to begin on the 22nd.
But something has changed, and the 20th number was crossed and written "[to issue] February 22," - told the UP Secretary of the NSDC Alexei Danilov, without specifying the reasons for the transfer of the invasion for two days. According to him, on the same day, on the evening of February 22, Ukraine received data on high risk of physical destruction of Vladimir Zelensky from Western intelligence.
"Partners were often told that the guys," If war, it means that the destruction of leadership, filtration and concentration camps. " But that evening it was the first message about the real preparation for the murder of Zelensky, ”Danilov said. On the evening of February 22, President Zelensky, for the first time in the cadence of the Council of the 9th convocation, invited all factions of the Verkhovna Rada to the Bank of the 9th convocation.
Prime Minister Denis Shmigal, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny, Secretary of Statement, SBU, the SBU, was present about the threat of invasion of deputies-the leaderm of factions who have access to state secrets: in addition to Zelensky: Apart from Zelensky, Ivan Bakanov and the head of GUR MO Kirill Budanov. The tone of their reports was different: “Budanov told terrible things.
But because other tops of power somehow, somehow, they almost irritated to what he said, others did not take him seriously. You know, this attitude towards Cyril's statements was like a younger brother, ”one of the participants of the meeting recalls after the speech of Budanov. The idea that the recognition of the pseudo -republics "L/DNR", which Vladimir Putin declared on February 21, may not end - "not just a rhetorical formula in the presidential speech.
" "It was a common conviction of his entire team," - writes the UP on the position of the President's office and Zelensky's appeal to Ukrainians on the night of February 22 after Putin held a demonstrative meeting I went into operation 24/7. On the morning of February 23, all its members gathered to solve a complex dilemma: whether to introduce martial law without waiting for the attack. “The discussion at the meeting was quite lively.
The Head of the Armed Forces of Zaluzhny and Defense Minister Rennikov defended the position that the introduction of a state of emergency may not be sufficient. They proposed to introduce martial law immediately, however, only in two or three regions in the east of the country, ”the UP writes. However, the majority at the meeting decided not to provoke Moscow - fearing that in this way Ukraine would give the Russians Trumps in their hands.
Russian propaganda at that time stated that Ukraine is allegedly preparing for a large offensive in the Donbass. Therefore, it was decided to introduce a state of emergency throughout the country. The Verkhovna Rada was approved by the Verkhovna Rada, but the faction leaders spent it all day on February 23, arguing about the details of the bill in the speaker's office Ruslan Stefanchuk.
"Peter [Poroshenko], Tymoshenko and voice demanded to take off points about the party and restrictions on the media. But Smirnov [Deputy Head of OP] respects that the decree should be as written in the law, ”the UE interlocutor in the leadership of Parliament recalls. In the end, the council managed to vote for the state of emergency at almost 22:00 Wednesday, February 23.
"All this looked quite grotesque, especially against the backdrop of new intelligence in Kyiv: Russia has finally completed the preparation and can attack," the UP notes. Even before the invasion of the Armed Forces in strict secrecy, ammunition warehouses were dispersed, spare aerodromes were prepared for combat aircraft, helicopters were brought into field other preparatory actions, writes UP. “But you can never prepare for the war completely.
Because you do not know how people will behave at a critical moment: who will be a hero, and who will betray and pass plans to defense the enemy, ”Danilov summarizes. On the evening of February 23, nearly 19:00, a meeting of Vladimir Zelensky and other representatives of the authorities and law enforcement agencies with the owners and heads of the 50 largest companies of Ukraine continued.
“For the first time in the history of independence, such a huge group of oligarchs and toplers of the country gathered in the hall of the office [President]. State protection representatives at the entrance to each asked the last name and searched the guests in the printed list. It is not an oligarchs, but a group of students came on a tour, ”the UP writes.
У черзі до рамок металошукачів можна було зустріти Геннадія Боголюбова, Бориса Кауфмана, Галину Герегу, Андрія Ставніцера, Геннадія Корбана, Томаша Фіалу, Сергія Таруту, Бориса Колеснікова, Василя Хмельницького, Степана Івахіва, Максима Тімченка, Олега Гороховського та інших.
Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Pinchuk arrived from abroad to a meeting with Zelensky-they were allowed into the inner yard of the OP. What sounded at this meeting: after a meeting on Bankova, none of the oligarchs showed concern - on the contrary, it seemed that businessmen turned out to be reassured. “Then no one told us that there would be a full -scale war.
Even there was no hint! Do you think we would be so valid and joyfully leave the office then? I would not spend time talking under the publishing or any minor affairs, and I would take the family, ” - recalled one of the famous tops in a conversation with the UP on February 23.
The head of the GUR MO Budanov later explained the UP that at a meeting with businessmen he did not voice all the information about Putin's plans, since the oligarchs, unlike the deputies, do not have access to the State Security Service. "But [at the meeting on February 23] I spoke quite directly, so that the level of threat was easy to understand," - said Budanov. However, according to the UP, Rinat Akhmetov after meeting on Bankova "went not to the airport, but to the bath.
" However, in a comment to the publication, he denied it: “There was no dinner, there was no bath. I do not go to the bath in the evenings. And I did not convince anyone that there would be no invasion. " It was about those parliamentarians who had access to state secrets. Such envelopes "in case of war" were distributed literally a few days before the attack of the Russian Federation. However, as one of the people's deputies told the UE when the invasion began, there was little benefit.
“There was nothing! Only some well -known bullshit. No words about what I do! ” - said one of the influential deputies from the servant of the people. In the end, the issue of further work of ministers and deputies on the day of the Russian attack was "resolved in OP from wheels". The VR apparatus literally the day before the invasion gave the instructions to the heads of factions that in the people's deputies should come to their places in the committees of parliament.
“Everyone worried that mobile communication would fall first. And each deputy in the office has a phone with a protected line. The so -called "hundred". Therefore, we were told to sit near the phones and wait for further instructions, ”one of the people's deputies explained.
Then the management of the Council planned to hold an outbound meeting-because of the threat of missile strikes on the Parliament building, he decided to hold it at the Museum of History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in the premises under the monument of the Motherland Mother. However, when deputies began to gather there after 7:00 on February 24, the plan was changed: people's deputies were asked to return to the meeting. “First, the device did not have time to ensure a normal vote.
Secondly, if there was some other room in the video meeting of the Council than the session hall, it could be the perfect material for Russian propaganda on the topic "Ukrainian authorities have already escaped from the capital",-the UP writes. After all, it took only a few minutes to vote in the session hall for the introduction of martial law. In general, the deputies were under the dome for no more than a quarter of an hour.
In the morning, a deputy Vadim Novinsky woke up in his house near Kiev from the explosions. He recruited the Metropolitan of Kiev Onufri, and after him the Moscow Patriarch Cyril. "Saint, warrior!" - said the agitated MP. "Can not be," Patriarch Cyril did not believe him. "Well, it is impossible, if I have an optician of the shutter from the shoe," Novinsky insisted. "The patriarch promised to" find out ", though everything was obvious," the UP writes.
On February 24, Zelensky was the first to arrive at OP immediately after 5:00, followed by NSDC members began to reach Bank, the UP writes. “Everything happened instantly. Everyone came, there was a short report and immediately taken the document through the signature of the President to Parliament, ”the Minister of Defense Reznikov recalls in a conversation with the UP.
At about 6:40 am, when the Ministry of Internal Affairs were headed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky, NSDC Secretary Danilov and Spicitter Kostyuk, the president called Boris Johnson. “We will fight. Boris, we are not going to give up, ”Zelensky shouted into the phone, turning on the conversation on the loudspeaker. Johnson vigorously convinced Zelensky in full support.
At about 9:00 am, the leaders of parliamentary factions, who were already here on February 22, were achieved by the President at the OP: only the former speaker of the Council Dmitry Razumkov was added, and instead of Yulia Klimenko, Sergei Rakhmanin came from his voice. "The President greeted the attendees by his hand, looked not as tired as evil," the UP writes. Zelensky urged all those present to "preserve the legitimacy of power.
" He suggested that the Council's leadership move to the west of the country, but opposed this sharply opposed Razumkov and Poroshenko, urging not to indulge Moscow about the "escape of power". Finally, the compromise came: Stefanchuk remained in Kiev, the first Visespicker Kornienko had to go to one of the neighboring regions, and VesPicer Kondratyuk - to the west of Ukraine. "In the event of the death of the senior leader, the younger had to sort through the powers," the UP writes.
During this meeting, the head of the presidential protection ran to the situational room: there was information that in Pechersk, a few quarters from the OP, the enemy DRGs were already wing. Zelensky "almost took his hands from the meeting to a safe place", writes the UP - so he first found himself in the bunker, from which he will manage the state for several next weeks.
During February 24, police and pistols were issued at the Main Directorate of the National Police at the Vladimir Deputies who did not run away from Kiev. They checked their passports and a deputy certificate. When the guns began to end quickly, they decided to give them only to women deputies.
“In one of the deputy queues, someone suddenly asked the policeman who was responsible for the issuance, why did the deputies give guns? The tired man exhausted and said quietly: "The time will come and you will understand," - describes the situation of the UP. Under the conditions of the daytime, on February 24, two special trains left Kyiv, and some of the officials, their families and documentation had taken out of the capital.
It was decided that only ministers of internal affairs, health care, infrastructure, energy and defense will remain in Kyiv, the rest will go to the west of Ukraine, where they will have a quorum for decision -making. Only Viceremierk Irina Vereshchuk remained in the capital. The Minister of Community and Territories Alexey Chernyshov was responsible for evacuation of the rest of the ministers.