Maria Zakharova
The former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych really appealed to Russian authorities with a request to send troops to the territory of a neighboring state, but did so via a statement, not a letter. The radio station “Moscow speaking” told the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“This is not a letter. This statement of Yanukovych. He never denied that he signed,” she said.
Zakharova confirmed that this statement was cited in 2014 in the UN Security Council then Russia’s permanent representative at the organization Vitaly Churkin. “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 is the issue of internal harmonization”, — said the representative of the foreign Ministry.
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On March 16 the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin was not registered letter with similar content from Yanukovych. Asked to comment on the mention of the letter to the Russian representative in the security Council, Peskov said that he did not know this.
Photos of the treatment of the former Ukrainian President to the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, dated March 2014, was published in the media in January. In the document entitled as “Declaration”, the politician asked to send troops into the country “to restore legality, peace, law and order, stability and protection of the population of Ukraine”.
Treatment of similar content was read out and demonstrated on March 4, 2014 at the emergency UN security Council meeting, convened at the initiative of Moscow. However, if reporting this the media called him the letter.