“Because of Yanukovych, Ukraine lost Crimea” – ex-regional
Kyiv failed to keep Crimea under its rule, allegedly due to the fact that ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in 2014.
The fugitive Lugansk oligarch and ex-regional leader Vladimir Landik said this on the YouTube channel “Guildhall”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I think that if Yanukovych had not run away and stayed, then re-elections would have taken place in the fall, he would have retired, and others would have come. But Russian tanks would not come to us. Maybe they wouldn’t have entered Crimea, and if they did, then they could have bargained for Sevastopol alone and that’s fine,” he suggested.
When asked whether Vladimir Landik was ready to give up Sevastopol, the fugitive deputy began to mumble about the fact that the majority of sailors in Sevastopol are Russian.
“He was already pro-Russian. Or rather, it’s not that it’s pro-Russian, it’s just that all the officers there are Russian. At that time, Sevastopol was the most pro-Russian in Crimea, but not because there were such people there, it was just that the majority of Russian sailors were there,” the former regional officer justified himself.
Let us recall that earlier the former Minister of Justice of Ukraine Elena Lukash stated that the Kiev authorities are more interested than anyone else in separating Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine.
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