Yanukovych asked the EU to introduce a military or police mission to Ukraine
Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych tried to the last to “preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine and resolve the events on the Maidan peacefully.”
Yanukovych’s lawyer Vitaly Serdyuk stated this in a commentary to the publication Glavkom, explaining recent statements by former head of the presidential administration Andrei Klyuev that Yanukovych wrote a letter to the foreign ministers of Germany, Poland and France, but they “dumped” the Ukrainian president.
Yanukovych's defense provided copies of that appeal.
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“The bloody events took place on February 18, 2014, when police officers and protesters died,” Yanukovych’s defender recalls the chronology of events. – On February 19, my client held negotiations with the opposition, at which an agreement on a truce was reached.
The morning of February 20 begins with the shooting of police officers, after which they begin to retreat and shooting begins in both directions.
On February 21, an agreement was signed between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition with the participation of a number of European guarantors, according to which the government was supposed to withdraw forces from the center, hold an amnesty and begin the constitutional process.
The law enforcement officers were ordered to withdraw, and the opposition was to immediately begin to liberate the occupied buildings and hand over their weapons. But as soon as the law enforcement officers were withdrawn from the central districts, the opposition seized administrative buildings, the presidential administration, and the Cabinet of Ministers.
At 6 a.m. on February 22, the Mezhyhirya state residence was seized, during the day a vote took place in the Verkhovna Rada for an anti-constitutional law, the client was removed from office while he was in Donetsk.”
After this, according to Serdyuk, Viktor Yanukovych signs a statement to the European guarantors, whom he informs about the unconstitutional coup and the opposition’s failure to implement the agreement. And he calls on the foreign ministers he addresses to fulfill their obligations as guarantors.
“We received these letters from Andrei Klyuyev, because Yanukovych, having signed them, instructed Klyuyev to contact the relevant ministers and embassies,” explains Serdyuk. - But they told him that there was no way to contact him now, they said that they would call back... None of the guarantor countries responded to the appeal, which could have prevented the situation that we have. There would be presidential re-elections and territorial integrity would be preserved, and Crimea would be Ukrainian.”
The ex-president's lawyer assures that the publication of Yanukovych's letters to European guarantors will be important in a number of cases of executions on the Maidan, high treason and an attempt on Yanukovych's life:
“They are complete proof that Viktor Yanukovych at that time did everything in his power to resolve the situation peacefully. These letters categorically refute his motive, which was attributed to him by his political opponents, about the alleged change in the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the so-called seizure of Crimea.”
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