Yanukovych's lawyer defeated Maidan activists in court
In 2014, the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU was postponed because the wording of the document provided for economic damage to the country’s economy of $200 billion.
This was stated by his lawyer Alexander Goroshinsky at the court hearing in the case of treason against ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Viktor Yanukovych said that the Association Agreement in the form in which it was proposed by the European Union to Ukraine caused a total of about 200 billion US dollars in damage to the Ukrainian economy. This is the price of signing an association agreement. At the same time, the president and his administration were looking for ways to sign an agreement on terms beneficial to everyone.
Similar to the negative consequences of signing the Agreement is the curtailment of joint sectoral projects in the fuel and energy sector worth more than $9 billion, in nuclear energy - in the amount of $1,5 billion, in shipbuilding and the military-industrial complex - $2 billion. Aircraft production would be stopped completely. Sectoral credit resources amounting to about US$7,7 billion were lost.
When Yanukovych is accused of not signing this agreement, I would very much like to read a document that would be calculated with a cool head, without emotion, regarding the economic component. I was hoping that I would see such a calculation in the materials of the judicial investigation bodies, which would say - look, the president didn’t sign, and we lost.
And what do we see, how the accusation is formulated? “Democratic processes have taken place in the country and as a result of democratic processes...”, etc. What do you understand by the phrase “democratic processes”? What are they? Capturing buildings? In mass beatings? In the use of weapons against law enforcement officers?
However, the prosecution very confidently names the losses that it believes were caused as a result of the loss of territories. But, what’s interesting, why doesn’t the prosecution, when talking about damages, file a civil claim? Let me explain: a civil claim must be proven. If you are talking about some material component in criminal proceedings, then be so kind as to say “A” and “B”. You can tell a lot of things, but you won’t file a civil claim,” the lawyer said.
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