He talked about the details investigations against Yanukovych and the then nine top officialswho organized forceful opposition to the protesters in the center of Kiev.
It was established that during the active phase of the confrontations on the Maidan, operational meetings were held with Yanukovych or with the heads of law enforcement agencies, or telephone connections with the authorities and security forces of the Russian Federation.
“The heads of law enforcement agencies and former President Yanukovych made special government connections with the highest government of the Russian Federation and the heads of its law enforcement agencies. In particular, Yanukovych made 11 connections with Russian President Putin. [Виталий] Zakharchenko is the Minister of Internal Affairs – 12 connections with the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation [Владимиром] Kolokoltsev, “Ivanov said.
The heads of the security services of Ukraine and Russia also spoke on the phone, said the Deputy Prosecutor General.
Since they communicated on special communications, the investigation was unable to find out the content of the conversations, Ivanov added.
Yanukovych was elected president of Ukraine in 2010. February 22, 2014, after three months of protests on the Maidan, The Verkhovna Rada recognized him as self-removed from office and not fulfilling his duties, after which new presidential elections were announced. In the same month, Yanukovych left Ukraine, now lives with his family in Russia.
In January 2019, Yanukovych was in absentia found guilty by the Obolonsky District Court of Kiev in high treason and aiding in the conduct of an aggressive war and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Also Yanukovych suspected of treason due to the signing of the Kharkiv agreements in 2010, in the organization of a terrorist attack and premeditated killings on the Maidan in 2014
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