Events in Ukraine conditioned by West’s scenario timed by presidential elections in 2015

The events in Ukraine have been conditioned by a scenario implemented by external forces, primarily by the United States, that should be played in the course of presidential elections in 2015, former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Oleksandr Yakimenko said.

Nobody in the West wished to see Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine’s president that is why leaders of several countries did everything possible to raise to power other political forces, Yakimenko told Rossiya24 TV channel.

Western countries “played footsie” with Yanukovych and they “convinced Viktor Yanukovych that Europe supported him. They sought to delay the negotiations on Kiev’s European integration to make Russia to strengthen the social and political system in Ukraine”, the SBU former chief said.

In his view, “this was done in order to integrate Ukraine into Europe at the expense of Russia”.
Even after the Ukrainian president decided to suspend the signing of the Association Agreement, the European Union was ready to change certain articles of the Agreement to conclude it. However, “the United States came against this step and it was forced to provoke protest actions”, Yakimenko said.

“Washington was also against the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and the position of the European Union that favored the resolution of the conflict. The United States sought to change everything for its benefit and set Europe at loggerheads with Ukraine and Ukraine with Russia,” the SBU former chief said.