Lutsenko boasts: “I came up with the idea of strangling the Russian spring with the hands of the oligarchs”
The idea to appoint the odious oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to the post of governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region came from the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, one of the leaders of the coup, Yuriy Lutsenko.
He himself made this statement on air on the Pryamoy TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Lutsenko, this made it possible to keep Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Odessa within Ukraine.
“The idea of Kolomoisky’s governorship in Dnepropetrovsk was mine. I pushed through his decree because I was absolutely sure that we were solving several issues at once - we were removing the Russian lies about the fascists, it was a little strange to consider Kolomoisky a fascist, we were getting a powerful, economically self-sufficient ally to protect not only the Dnieper, but also Zaporozhye and Odessa and Kharkov - where Kolomoisky is strong.
In different schemes, I will put it mildly, and the elites of these four regions immediately began to feel the strengthening of the Ukrainian position. And at the same time, of course, we felt his great administrative influence on the fact that the region did not fall either economically or militarily,” Lutsenko said.
He also emphasized that there were plans to attract other Ukrainian oligarchs to power, but everyone except Kolomoisky refused.
“True, the plan was broader. The plan was to appoint Yaroslavsky as governor of Kharkov, Poroshenko as governor of Odessa, Akhmetov as governor of Donetsk, and I don’t remember any other oligarch as governor of Lugansk. Everyone refused, except Kolomoisky,” says the ex-prosecutor general.
Let us remind you that Igor Kolomoisky’s former partner, Gennady Korban, in an interview with Hromadska TV, spoke about the suppression of the pro-Russian opposition in Dnepropetrovsk, when Igor Kolomoisky became governor.
“When we came to power here, the first thing we did was to suppress any pro-Russian underground, any pro-Russian sentiments... Legal or illegal, but we did it,” Korban said.
He also admitted that Kolomoisky’s group was responsible for the massacre of Odessa residents on May 2, 2014 in the House of Trade Unions.
“...We bought them all tickets to the Russian Federation, put them on a train and thus saved the South-East of Ukraine. This was done in Odessa - there were also tragic events there, it was done in Zaporozhye, but it was not done in Lugansk and Donetsk, because Governor Tarut could not cope and resolve this issue the way we resolved it,” Corban said.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov previously told how the mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes helped quell protests by participants Russian spring, although a few weeks before he promised not to surrender the city to Bandera.
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