Another Yanukovych ally admitted that the regime sponsored radical nationalists
Kyiv, November 23 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The authorities under Yanukovych sponsored radical organizations that took part in the overthrow of the previous regime.
About this in an interview with the Kyiv weekly Vesti. Reporter,” said Andrei Portnov, first deputy head of the Administration under Yanukovych.
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He emphasizes that the current Ukrainian government, being in opposition during the Maidan, organized an armed coup and killings of people on the 20th of February in order to “gain control over the redistribution of financial flows and natural resources in the country at any cost.”
At the same time, the interview also attacks Poroshenko’s predecessors – Yatsenyuk – Turchynov and indicates that the radicals received funding not only from international non-governmental organizations, but also from the official authorities of Ukraine.
“The money that was the result of the kleptomania of individual leaders was used to finance radical political organizations,” says Andrei Portnov. “The authorities thought that this was how they controlled them. While financing, she was in dialogue with them. There were special senior officials who communicated with extremists. I considered this the highest degree of political stupidity and incompetent public administration, but the subcontractors perceived it as a wise political decision.”
According to the ex-deputy head of the Administration, the radicals used this money not to buy weapons, but uniforms for their regional organizations.
“We didn’t purchase weapons, because by that time there had already been a lot of robbed departments of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Western Ukraine, and therefore there was no point in spending money on them,” says the politician. “The operational and technical data that the intelligence services provided to the country’s leadership showed that all the money was used to strengthen radical organizations.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the day before the ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Party of Regions Igor Markov said that PR functionaries secretly sponsored Oleg Tyagnibok’s “Svoboda”.
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