The Prosecutor General of Ukraine promised to open criminal proceedings on Yanukovych’s statement about a coup d’etat

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine will open criminal proceedings on a coup d'etat at the request of former President Viktor Yanukovych. This was stated by the head of the department Yuriy Lutsenko.

“We will register, in accordance with the current legislation, a criminal proceeding on a coup d'état, transfer it to the appropriate division of the Prosecutor General's Office, study and make a reasonable decision by law. Moreover, I will do everything to make this happen without my control, ”Interfax quotes him.

Viktor Yanukovych, who is accused of treason in Ukraine, filed a statement with the Prosecutor General's Office of this country about the coup d'etat committed in 2014. Among the persons involved in the coup, he named, in particular, the current head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko, as well as Yuriy Lutsenko himself.

• Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was removed from power at the end of February 2014. After the death of several dozen people during the confrontation on the Maidan, Yanukovych agreed with the opposition to call early presidential elections, but it soon became known that he had left Kyiv and did not intend to fulfill the agreements. The Verkhovna Rada, bypassing the impeachment procedure prescribed by law, announced his resignation, explaining this by the fact that the president had withdrawn from his duties. After that, Yanukovych left the country and has been in Russia ever since.
• Viktor Yanukovych is accused of asking Russia to send troops to Ukraine in the midst of protests in Kyiv in 2014. According to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, this is what allowed Russia to send troops to the territory of Crimea. On July 5, Yanukovych announced that he was refusing to participate in this "supposedly adversarial process" because its "outcome is predetermined."