NSDC orders Defense Ministry to redeploy military units in Crimea and evacuate military families - Turchynov
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has instructed the Defense Ministry to redeploy military units stationed in Crimea, Acting Ukrainian President and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov has said.
"The National Security and Defense Council has made the decision regarding the instruction to the Defense Ministry to conduct the redeployment of military units that are in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," Turchynov said at a meeting of the conciliatory council of the heads of parliamentary factions and committees.
He said that the National Security and Defense Council had ordered the Cabinet of Ministers to evacuate the families of servicemen.
"The Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to ensure the accommodation of families of servicemen, and all those who are now forced to leave their homes under pressure and aggression of the occupying forces of the Russian army," Turchynov said.
