The deserting thing is BS. Remember when the Russians told the world the flagship of the Ukrainian navy had defected to the Russians? That was while the ship was at sea still returning from NATO exercises. When it did return, the ship docked in Odessa rather than its previous home port of Sevastopol which would have happened if the ship’s crew had defected.
The Russians flat out lied. And they’re still lying their asses off.
The blatant lie on 3/1/14:
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-navy-flaghsip-protest-389/
What actually happened on 3/5/14:
https://news.pn/en/politics/98473
Berkut special police force splitted in half, also bare in mind that Ukraine have conscript army, cca half of their officers are Russians. Also, number of police stations and secret police buildings were taken, and rebels took AKs from there.
Also - are you there wandering where have people got AKs in country that INVENTED AKs !?!?!?!?