Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Russia has begun to export terrorism to Ukraine, besides of oil and gas exports

“The Russian Federation has a new product for export. Besides of oil and gas exports, Russia has begun to export terrorism to Ukraine,” Prime Minister of Ukraine said at a session of the Government.

The Prime Minister stressed that the Government holds all-national dialogue: “The position of the Ukrainian Government is unchangeable. It is the decentralization of power, amending the Constitution of Ukraine, protection of national minorities, Russian-speaking population, unity, integrity and sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.”

“And with these positions we went to the East. We turned to Donetsk, Lugansk, Odesa and Mykolaiv, Lviv and Ternopil, and that is what the whole country expects. The country expects peace, tranquility and harmony,” he said.

The Prime Minister stressed that a Constitutional Commission, represented by all political forces both from the East and from the West created in the Parliament: “which was also attended by legitimately elected heads of city state administrations including from Eastern Ukraine and representatives of MPs. They are our political opponents today, but they are people who live in Donetsk or Lugansk, and they have had a mandate from these people. And they have a legal right to express the will and interests of Eastern Ukraine.”

“We continue our all-national dialogue, but those who are holding guns in their hands, they don’t want the unity of the country and they don’t talk about how to give additional powers to those or other regions, or how to protect rights of minorities. Their task, which is sponsored by the Russian Federation, is the destruction of Ukrainian independence,” Prime Minister stressed.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the Russian leadership keeps silence about the fact that their intelligence and subversive forces together with local terrorists with guns are shooting and killing Ukrainian soldiers and civilians over the past few weeks: “Where is the position of the Russian government, which would have condemned terrorism?”

He recalled that Russia started two anti-terrorist operations in last two days - in Nalchik and Makhachkala: “So, Russia is fighting terrorists. And when Ukraine has began to protect its citizens, then there would be not a fighting terrorism according to Russia but this is a crackdown on mass protests.”

“It seems that the only country in the world - Russia – doesn’t see that Russian sabotage groups committing terrorist acts on the territory of Ukraine,” he said.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the Government is expecting the meeting in the quadripartite format - the U.S., EU, Ukraine and Russia tomorrow in Switzerland.

He said that Government's directives to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to the meeting will be discussed at the session: “Directive the only one - Russian government must immediately withdraw its intelligence and sabotage groups condemn terrorists and require them to release the facilities and administration.”

“We are ready tomorrow with our Western partners to hold the first meeting in this format with the Russian Federation. This meeting should be not a protocol meeting, but this meeting should have an aim to stabilize the situation in Ukraine, stop terrorist activities supported by the Russian Federation and update dialog,” the Head of the Government said.

This position, according to him, should restore stability in Europe and the whole: “as today's events threaten Ukraine, the Ukrainians and have begun to threaten Europe and the European Union. And it became clear that our Russian neighbors decided to build a new Berlin Wall and they want to return to the Cold War, and began to prepare for this through hot terrorism in Ukraine.”

“Conducting all these terrorist operations by Russian secret services is not just unacceptable, but it is the international crime,” Prime Minister stressed.

Our appeal to Russia: stop supporting terrorists, condemn them, and we will understand ourselves at home."