MOSCOW, May 27 (EFE).- Former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who was sacked during the 2014 protests and is now taking refuge in Russia, on Friday expressed his fear that the country will lose not only lands in the east and south, but also Russia. brought. disappears as an independent state.
“As painful as it is to write, Ukraine is in extreme danger as a state. It is threatened with complete destruction. It is not just about the risk of losing vast lands in the south and east of the country,” Yanukovych said on his social media account. said. .
The former president did not even exclude Ukraine’s reunification with Poland, given the possibility that it would be “incapable of defending its sovereignty economically”.
“This will be the result of the European dream in which the Ukrainian people are supposedly taking to the streets,” he said, referring to the wave of protests at Euromaidan from November 2013 to February 2014 demanding greater integration with Europe. expression.
In addition, he felt that Kiev should sit down to negotiate with Moscow, whose army began to enter Ukrainian territory on February 24.
“It will be challenged by the West, including the United States. Nothing lasts forever and in this case the arms supply to Ukraine is no exception.”
According to him, the important thing is “not to lose the vote of the electorate”, so American and European leaders support this or that government only according to their own interests.
The pro-Russian Yanukovych was overthrown on February 22, 2014, after security forces forcibly dispersed the barricades and fortress built on the Euromaidan (literally, Eurosquare) in central Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin granted him asylum in Russia’s Rostov region after fleeing first to his native Donetsk region and then to the Crimean peninsula.
Later, Russia annexed Crimea and started an armed uprising in the Donbas region; this is a covert conflict that Putin uses as an excuse to launch his current military intervention in Ukraine.
Yanukovych, 71, was sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 13 years in prison in 2019 for treason and complicity in Russian military aggression.
source: Noticias
