http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/world/europe/ukraine.html?ref=europe said:
KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, after months of neutrality in the country’s civil unrest, published a statement on Friday that censured antigovernment demonstrators for occupying public buildings and raised the specter of military intervention, even though it did not endorse any role for troops in dispersing protesters.
The statement, addressed to President Viktor F. Yanukovych and expressing support for his efforts to resolve the crisis, said, “Servicemen and Interior Ministry troops of Ukraine called the forceful seizure of government buildings unacceptable.” It also said that the protesters were preventing state agencies and local governments from fulfilling their obligations and that any escalation in the conflict “threatens the territorial integrity of the state.”
In another sign of a possible role for the military in suppressing the civil uprising here, a former defense minister, Anatoly Hrytsenko, who is now a member of Parliament in the opposition Fatherland party, said military officers had been asked to either sign a pledge supporting Mr. Yanukovych as commander in chief or resign.