Alexander Lukashenko: the Ukrainian military themselves asked Russia to take control of Crimea 
In 2014, the Ukrainian military themselves asked Russia to take control of Crimea , said the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The politician spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to him, the Ukrainian servicemen serving in Crimea were afraid of the deployment of NATO troops there, and therefore themselves offered their Russian colleagues to save the peninsula, taking it under their control.
Lukashenko also added that by that time the United States had already designed the barracks in Sevastopol. “Therefore, those who served there in Crimea, they saw it, Ukrainian, former Soviet generals and officers. And they offered the Russians, “he said.