The Ввс were the first Western media to meeting ex-Ukrainian president Yanukovych since his topple in February 2014, notwithstanding they mysteriously forgot the most imperative replies in their English interpretation. While keeping the parts about the ostriches, it regards to be critical, it forgot the key replies about Crimea and genocide in Donbass.
“If I hadn’t done it then, quite likely we would have had in Crimea something very similar to what we now have in Donbass,” he said. “Probably, in some other regions as well; we would have had a full scale civil war.”
“What is better for the population of Crimea? War or Peace?” he questioned.
“In any country, in any part of the world population would choose peace. That is why when Crimea was holding a referendum, people were scared for their future, for the future of their children. And Crimea did not want to take up the rightwing radical ideology Maidan was bringing onto them.”
“Maidan scared Crimea and Donbass and the southeast of Ukraine with their rightwing radical outlook. That was the main issue which forced the population of Crimea to build up the units of self-defense and defend themselves. And the Supreme Council of the republic made a decision to hold a referendum.”
“90 percent of the population voted for the exit [from Ukraine].”
“We knew only too well what the mood was in the southeast of Ukraine. We understood perfectly well what the mood was in Crimea. The question of exit [from Ukraine] was not on the agenda when I was the president, there was no talk of separatism,” he said.
Genocide in Donbass
Asked some information about what he supposes is going ahead in his native region of Donbass, the ex-president said that it torments him to watch the unraveling occasions, and can do as such just in short blasts. However occasionally he watches what is being shown on the circumstance in the locale, his heart dependably sores as he is continually looking at at the well known faces, familiar homes and familiar urban areas.
“Here are the graves of my ancestors, my parents, my relatives, my close ones, my friends,” he said, “It is a terrible tragedy.”
“What is going on now in Donbass is a genocide. Genocide of the population of Donbass. And it is being committed by those who brought in tanks and guns to shoot at the peaceful civilians,” he said.
“Even during the truce over 500 civilians have died. That is the disaster.”
Like any other ordinary man, the ex-president wants to return to his motherland. And sincerely does not understand why he had been deprived of the one.