Senior lawmaker: By resigning, Yatsenyuk tries to shirk responsibility for crimes

By announcing his resignation Ukraine’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is trying to avoid responsibility for crimes his government has committed against its own people, a Russian lawmaker said on Thursday.
“We can say with confidence that this intention reveals a wish to avoid responsibility for the troubles and misfortunes that were brought upon the people of Ukraine with his help, for the crimes that were committed by the authorities,” Irina Yarovaya, Chair of the State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) Security Committee, told ITAR-TASS.
In her opinion, “the crimes that were committed over this time with Yatsenyuk’s direct participation are appalling”.
Yarovaya thinks that by resigning Yatsenyuk is trying to distance himself from these crimes. “But this won’t work,” she added.
Yatsenyuk announced his resignation from the post of prime minister on Thursday.