Traitor from Crimea: Focus found out who commands the Russian offensive in Kharkiv region

Commander of the 6th Army of Russia Sergey Storozhenko became famous during the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014. A native of Kharkiv region passed the position of the brigade entrusted to him, says the former speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev. Commander of the 6th Army of Russia Sergey Storozhenko, former commander of the 36th Brigade of the Coast Defense in the superior, manages Russian troops, which are now coming to Kharkiv region.

Focus learned about it from a conversation with the expection of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznyov. "It is a former Ukrainian commander and a traitor. A native of Kharkiv region passed the positions of the brigade when the Russians annexed Crimea in March 2014. Now the Kremlin has chosen it at the head of the army, which wants to occupy the northern part of Kharkiv region," - says the expert, citing his own sources.

Open information is known that more than 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers remained in the Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula. This is 70% of all who served on the Crimean Peninsula. "They came to me personally, well, as they gathered together. They offered to move to the side of the government. But there was an answer that there was an oath,"-said in March 2014, Sergei Storozhenko. By April 2014, the 36th Brigade handed over weapons.

According to him, the military had three options for the future: to write a report and release from the army, to move to Ukraine and to continue service, or to stay in the occupied Crimea in the same brigade Storozhenko chose the third option and in 2016 told about the service of the commander 126. -a separate brigade of the coast defense of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation.

In 2019, the colonel occupied the post of deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation from the Land and Coast troops. We will remind, in the morning on May 10 Russian troops intensified the offensive in Kharkiv region. The shelling of Vovchansk continues, in addition to bombs and artillery, use systems of Reb and drones. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the beginning of a new offensive of Russian troops.