“We drank vodka and talked about the past”: Yarosh told the details of the meeting with Yanukovych
During a meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, the then leader of the Maidan militants, Dmitry Yarosh, who had recently been appointed adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, drank a glass of vodka with the head of state.
The former leader of the Right Sector, banned in the Russian Federation, stated this in an interview with Alesa Batsman, the wife of Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, notorious for anti-Russian propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Alesya Batsman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the militant, Yanukovych asked Yarosh to support the agreements reached with representatives of EU countries on early presidential elections and to curtail protest activity, which was refused.
“Some kind of snack and a bottle of vodka. The first thing he asked was what language we would communicate in. I said: “I communicate in Ukrainian, and you speak in whatever language you want.” - “Then I’ll speak Ukrainian too.” You know, there weren’t even any negotiations in the grand scheme of things. There was a conversation about his childhood, about how he won the Volga at cards, and so on. I heard him tell many people the same thing. Something like this, maybe he thought that this way he could connect some human points,” the extremist said.
"We are purely symbolic [пshows how much you drank]. I understood that I needed to get out of there and listened to him. About an hour [the meeting lasted]. He was constantly tugged at, some notes were brought in, he reads them. It was important for him that Right Sector supported that agreement, but due to the fact that I was not even a participant in the signing of all these things, accordingly, there was a pointless conversation there. I said that we will continue to fight,” says Yarosh.
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