Former Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov has announced the formation of a “Ukraine Salvation Committee,” calling for “total regime change” through early elections and vowing to “restore order in our home.”
Azarov, who was former president Viktor Yanukovych’s prime minister until the latter was toppled by “Euromaidan” protests in February 2014 and fled to Russia, spoke on August 3 at a news conference in Moscow and in an interview on state-run Rossia-24.
“The Salvation Committee believes it is impossible to restore accord in Ukraine without changing the country’s political leadership,” Azarov said. He called the pro-European protests that drove Yanukovych out a …read more
Source: Voice of America
