: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Yanukovych says protesters started war


Ukraine’s former Moscow-backed president has accused pro-European Union protesters who forced his ouster of provoking the 31-month pro-Russian revolt in the southeast that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Viktor Yanukovych is a witness in the trial of five Ukrainian Berkut anti-riot police who are accused of opening fire at mostly unarmed people during the February 2014 revolution that turned the former Soviet republic toward the West.
The former president himself stands accused of treason in Ukraine.
However, Yanukovych escaped to Russia after the bloodbath that killed more than 100 people and cannot be prosecuted by the Kiev courts.
Yesterday’s hearings in Kiev were being …read more

Source: Gulf times

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