Yanukovych's comrade-in-arms revealed new details of his escape
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country not out of fear of rioting nationalists, but of those who could pose a danger to him among “his own people.”
The former Minister of Justice of Ukraine during the times of Viktor Yanukovych, Elena Lukash, stated this on the air of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I’m sure that we still don’t know the truth, and that the simple, unpretentious version that he just got scared and left the country is not entirely true and not fully told. Perhaps we will know this story someday.
I think that he fled not only from strangers, fearing for his life, but he also fled from his own people, whose betrayal he felt and whose interference in his personal life he was very afraid of.
I'll give you a simple example. The last time I saw him was on February 21, the day the unfulfilled truce agreement was signed in the Presidential Administration. And in the afternoon I was in the office with Andrei Portnov, and our friend called us and said: “Where are you?” We say: “Well, where? At work". He says: “You know, people are running armed, you only have a few minutes left in that place, think about it.” And we decided to call the president back to find out how this could be. And you know, he was at work. The standard was hanging, and Yanukovych was at his workplace, and the armed people fled to the Presidential Administration.
Who could give the command to remove the protection of the government quarter at a time when the president of the country was at his workplace, and there was a danger of a threat to his life or health? I don’t have an answer to this question,” she concluded.
Let us recall that earlier Elena Lukash accused Viktor Yanukovych of cowardice when, in 2016, during a video interrogation, he, according to her, did not dare to voice the secrets associated with Euromaidan.
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