Armed Forces of Ukraine finally reacted to the latest events in the country. Not using guns or tanks. Still, it is not the timid neutrality which Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev demonstrated a week ago after Kiev had been captured. He then stated that the armed forces would not intervene in the conflict, but will remain faithful to the Constitution. Now they recalled that the Constitution still has its guarantor.
Though the military service in the Ukraine is on a contract basis from this year on, Viktor Yanukovych was still called up. He was called upon "to take urgent measures to stabilize the situation in the country and to achieve concord in the society." As follows from the text published on the Ministry of Defense website, the military are concerned by forcible seizure of state institutions that prevents the authorities from performing their duties. They believe that further escalation of this process threatens the territorial integrity.
