The Russian foreign Ministry has acknowledged the appeal of Yanukovych to Putin to send troops
The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova confirmed that Viktor Yanukovych appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the introduction of troops to Ukraine.
She declared it on air of radio station “Moscow speaking”, noting that we are talking about the statement, which was read in the UN the permanent representative of Russia Vitaly Churkin.
“Churkin have been authorized to quote in the UN security Council, which is openly stated. The statement was circulated as a document of the security Council – a common practice of informing the Council members of relevant material. Technology send instructions to the Russian representatives abroad that is a matter of coordination,” she said.
As noted Zakharova, it was not a letter, and the statement deprived the title of President Yanukovych.
“This is not a letter. This statement of Yanukovych. He never denied that he signed,” she added.
Earlier, the press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov assured that the Russian presidential administration has not received letters from the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych regarding the invasion in March 2014.
“The fact that no sheet is officially in the presidential administration were reported. No such document in the presidential administration were not recorded”, – he said.
In January the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has published an official letter from the Secretariat of the UN, in which former President Viktor Yanukovych asked the UN to send Russian troops into Ukraine. He stressed that all the Ukrainian consequence materials recognized by the UN as official documents provided by the Russian Federation. At the same time the Prosecutor General’s office disown the document: they claim that any application of Yanukovych was not the reason for the appeal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federation Council for permit to use Russian troops in Ukraine.