The phenomenon of the application

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych really turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to introduce troops. This was written on her page in the FB, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. At the same time, she emphasized that we are not talking about a letter, but a statement.

In 2014, it was this statement that Vitaly Churkin read to the UN Permanent Representative of Russia. However, the document was not registered and was not considered either in the administration of the President of Russia or the Council of the Federation. "The application was signed by the President of Ukraine, read out in the UN Security Council as very indicative information about the situation in Ukraine, but no decisions on it were made in the AP or in the Council of Russia," Zakharova said.

"Black misinformation again blossomed with its poisonous colors in the world media space," the media reported in the media report on the denial of the existence of Yanukovych’s letter denied the announcement of the existence of Yanukovych’s letters. "Everything is simple. It is amazing how even transparent and open actions open to the media is overgrown with legends and acquire a raid of sensation," Zakharova wrote.

On Thursday, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that in 2014, the Kremlin did not receive Yanukovych's letters with a request to introduce troops to Ukraine. "No letter was officially received by the Presidential Administration, no such letter was registered in the administration," he said.

On March 7, the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia made the same statement in her letter to the Ukrainian supervisory authority. As stated in the document, neither in the administration of Putin, nor the Council of Appeal of Yanukovych received.

Meanwhile, on the night of March 4, 2014, the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin showed a copy of this document at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. The document, which was dated March 1 of the same year, among other things said: "I turn to the President of Russia V.V. Putin with a request to use the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to restore the legality, peace, law and order, stability, and protect the population of Ukraine."

In January 2017, the UN Secretariat transferred to Ukraine Facsimile Yanukovych , provided by Russia. It was published in the media.

Putin and Yanukovych themselves previously declared the existence of a letter. In addition, Senator Andrei Klishas reported that the run-in ex-president of Ukraine sent the same content to the Council of People's Commissars.

On March 14, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine sent a case to the court open to Yanukovych . Part 1 of Article 111 (state treason; sanction from 12 to 15 years of colony), part 5 of Article 27 - part 3 of article 110 (awarding in an encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, which entailed the death of people and other grave consequences; from 10 years to a lifetime) and part 5 of Article 27 - part 2 of Article 437 of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code of the City aggressive war; The process will take place in absentia, since Yanukovych is hiding in Russia, which provided him with a temporary shelter.