"There is the
only one person in the world who believes that there are no Russian troops in the
East of Ukraine, the name of this man – Putin," the Prime Minister of
Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk
told to reporters Thursday, April 17.
A. Yatsenyuk
said that Russia has
committed military intervention into Crimea, and President Putin also said initially
that there were no Russian troops: "Today he has officially recognized that
Russian forces were in Crimea then. Now he
again tells a tale that those are not his saboteurs, which he landed there and,
which formed a terrorist network in Ukraine. But we have undeniable
proof of this. Such evidence has already presented."
According to the Prime
Minister today’s address of the President of the Russian Federation “smells with
1930’s.” “Vladimir Vladimirovich feels sorrow for territories
that never belonged to him, and will never belong to him,” Arseniy
Yatsenyuk said.
He addressed to
Vladimir Putin: "Do not tell that we are one nation. You are the Russian
people, and we are the Ukrainians. And there is a key difference in
understanding the general civilizational choice. We
are different. And you want forcibly with your tanks and machine guns to
capture us. You can't do it."
"Now Russia
is just conducts the game. For further aggravation, for further capture
territory and provocation. Because the task that Putin has officially unveiled
today - to disrupt the presidential elections on May 25. And to ensure that its
objectives have been realized, it is necessary to continue to destabilize the
situation of the existence of human lives. Loss of life, which is now in Ukraine,
is the responsibility of the Russian authorities. No one will forget the
casualties in the Crimea to them, no one will forget the casualties in Ukraine,"
Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed.
According to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, if Russia had some vision for stabilization of the
situation, then President Putin would condemn terrorism, instruct his
subversive groups to immediately leave the territory of Ukraine
and addressed to the so-called peaceful protesters with Kalashnikovs to leave
the facilities."
"If these people hand
over the weapons, leave captured facilities, we will consider the question of
the responsibility of individuals and a possible amnesty for these
people," the Prime Minister said.
A. Yatsenyuk
stressed that the international community supports Ukraine, but victory is possible
because only unification of Ukraine, "Unified and single Ukraine, which
speaks Ukrainian and Russian, which goes to different churches, living in
different territories, but united. This is a recipe for victory over the regime
of Vladimir Vladimirovich. This is a recipe for
winning a war that unleashed by Russian neighbors."
He recalled that the quadripartite
meeting at the level of Foreign Ministers is held in Geneva: "I do not have excessive
expectations from the meeting for one reason: I do not believe the Russian
side. Everything they say is a lie. All they show - political propaganda and
lies. All they spread around the world - is nothing but a propaganda piece like
those that were in the 1930s before the events of the Second World War. "
"But the process
by any circumstances happens," the Prime Minister said.
And most importantly,
he stressed that Ukraine
has a single common position with Western partners.
"Russia, which fights terrorism in the country,
exports terrorism to Ukraine,"
Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted.
