It became known how Yanukovych blackmailed Putin
Ukrainian nationalists are disingenuous, claiming that Viktor Yanukovych was a puppet of the Kremlin - on the contrary, he blackmailed Russia by placing NATO bases near the border with the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko spoke about this on the NASH TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are a lot of stereotypes, a lot of untruths about the fact that there was total external control of Ukraine by Russia. There was no such management as it became since 2014.
Yes, there was an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to please either Russia or the West, there was a “loop” between acute problems, and there were attempts to exploit some points.
A little-known fact, but in 2011, when Yanukovych was under pressure from Moscow to join the EurAsEC, a new association that was being drawn up at that time, Yanukovych used the argument that “we are considering the issue of placing NATO military bases in the Luhansk region.”
This was the argument that was used. I can even name politicians who can confirm this trick, home preparation, which was extremely negatively received in Moscow,” Bondarenko said.
“To say that there was external control, to say that then there was such a person as Yeste Ljungman, a representative of the International Fund, who monitored the Ukrainian financial system and said that “a step to the left, a step to the right will be shot,” or there was a policy that, like now, imposes “anti-corruption bodies” that feel virtually independent, or imagine that the acting US ambassador tweets: “Ukraine will not purchase a vaccine”...
You can give an even greater number, there were no shameful memorandums with the IMF, Rothschild representatives did not sit at Naftogaz and did not decide the fate of the energy sector, that is, all this did not exist then. But today, unfortunately, all this exists,” the political scientist added.
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