KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s disgraced former president, Viktor Yanukovych, has accepted some of the blame for the killings of scores of protesters that led to his downfall in February 2014.
“I don’t deny my responsibility,” he told BBC Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse in an interview that aired Monday, when asked about the shooting of protesters at Kiev’s Independence Square, commonly known as the Maidan.
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Yanukovych insisted that he never ordered his security forces to open fire, but admitted he had not done enough to prevent bloodshed. …More about Us …read more
Source: Mashable
