West Interfered in Ukraine’s Internal Affairs During Maidan – Ex-PM

The West interfered in Ukraine’s internal affairs during the 2014 Maidan events, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Friday.

Western countries interfered in Ukraine’s domestic affairs during the 2014 Maidan events, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Friday, noting that a prominent US senator had called for a Ukraine coup at the time.

“In my opinion, what was happening in Kiev on Maidan was an absolutely uncivil, rude interference in Ukraine’s domestic affairs from foreign countries. It is beyond question. If [US Senator John] McCain addressed [the crowd] on Maidan and called for the overthrow of the ruling power, what does it speak about?” Azarov said, speaking at Moscow’s Dorogomilovsky Court.

Moreover, the EU warned former Ukrainian government of the possibility of a coup before the 2014 Maidan events, hinting at the necessity to sign an association agreement to avoid a regime change, Mykola Azarov added.

According to Azarov, following Ukraine’s rejection to sign the association agreement, Kiev held “tough talks” with the EU Commission with then-European Commissioner Stefan Fule saying that in case the government does not sign the agreement, “another prime minister and another president would.”

Azarov noted he was astonished by the reaction of some EU leaders to the use of Ukrainian government’s right to delay or cancel the signing of the agreement. He stressed that the former government’s position was to avoid signing the agreement which could have led to economic crisis.

Besides Azarov, former head of the presidential administration Andrey Klyuev, former Interian Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko and former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka are expected to be heard by the court on Friday.

In his lawsuit, Oleynik asked the court to establish the fact of a coup in Ukraine which will automatically lead to recognition of the current government of Ukraine as illegitimate.

On Thursday, Dorogomilovsky Court started legal proceedings in the case of recognizing the 2014 events in Ukraine as a coup d’etat on the lawsuit filed by former Ukranian lawmaker Vladimir Oleynik. He asked the court to establish the fact of a coup in Ukraine which will automatically lead to recognition of the current government of Ukraine illegitimate. A number of former ministers are expected to be interrogated on Friday.

“I unambiguously regard [the 2014 events in Ukraine] as a coup,” Azarov said at the hearing.

A political crisis erupted in Ukraine in November 2013, when the country’s authorities announced to suspend its European integration process. The protests that started in central Kiev’s Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, spread across the country and led to a government coup in February, forcing then-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.

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It doesnt mater now. Ukraine is in heaps of trouble since Putin and Trump are good friends, so they better start cozying up to Russia again if they want to retain the territories they have left.