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| 17.11.200917:06 (GMT) | Lieutenant-General Alexander Skipalsky has been intending to unite veterans of security services and armed forces of Ukraine, news agency Pravda reports, referring to General’s interview. «Nowadays we need to do everything to create association of public organizations, to address to veteran and military movement», online paper Novosti.dn.ua cites General Skipalsky. «This public association, in case of need, would provide the order in the country by virtue of the nature, as defenders of Fatherland».
General Skipalsky also marked impossibility of use by top politicians of security forces in their own interests, «The veteran organizations will not stay aside if there will be a real threat for existence of the country and its people, on fidelity to which all of us have swore. The operating security forces will be guided by the Constitution. Any order to fight against own people is a crime».
Skipalsky reminded that security forces supported the wave of national protest in 2004, not having allowed bloodshed, «Then the hotheads distributed cartridges. Armies moved to Kiev. Nevertheless the general efforts have stopped it. Then, addressing to demonstrators, I did not tell that I was addressing to them on behalf of the leadership of security forces. I told them that I was speaking on behalf of the majority which shared democratic position of development of the country. (..) But if there is a problem of protection of integrity and sovereignty before the army it is a constitutional mission. However, the mechanism at what stage, when and what level of threat there should be that the army started to carry out its duties has not been developed. In the future it is necessary to develop it», -Skipalsky declared.
Lieutenant-General Alexander Skipalsky who previously served in the KGB, was among those who were standing at the very roots of the Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Main Intelligence directorate of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine; he was a parliament member and a deputy minister of emergency situations, according to online paper Ostrov. In 2004, he headed the protection service of the then presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
The last state service positions of Skipalsky were the deputy chairman of the SBU and the head of the SBU Donetsk area directorate in 2006.
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