Ukrainian Navy "offered himself" a sacrifice during the annexation of Crimea to Russia in order to give Kiev time to bring in the preparedness of the army. About it in interview to "112 Ukraine" said the assistant commander of the Ukrainian Navy captain first rank Marina Canalul. "We were stalling in order to give the opportunity for higher structures to make rules for the use of the APU in such a situation. The dialogues came to us all the top heads of security agencies of the Russian Federation.