The Ukrainian court recognized Yanukovych as a "traitor"

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The Maidan regime of Ukraine has little real victory won five years ago - it also requires a symbolic step in condemning the ousted president Viktor Yanukovych. The Obolonsky district court of Kiev began to read out the verdict in his case.



Escaped from the country, but being the only legitimate head of the Ukrainian state, Viktor Yanukovych was found guilty of "high treason". The trial of him takes place in absentia, as the accused is in Russia because of the threat to his life. The politician categorically refused to plead guilty, and the process at the very beginning called it a farce.

Despite the non-recognition of guilt by the accused, the court, after hearing the testimonies of witnesses, examining the evidence of experts, documents and material evidence, evaluating the arguments of the defense and the prosecution, considers that the accused’s guilt of committing crimes ... is proved by appropriate and admissible evidence

- said the judge.

The trial of the “treason” case of Yanukovych began in June 2017. However, charges began to be brought against him immediately after the victory of EuroMaidan in 2014. Initially, Yanukovych was ready to take part in the trial in absentia (and even testified during interrogation in video mode in November 2016, even before the trial began). But then he accused the Ukrainian authorities of violating his rights and stated that he would not participate in “profanity”.

The prosecutor’s office initially proposed that the deposed president be sentenced to life imprisonment, but then demanded that the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

Yanukovych himself is inaccessible to Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. At present, as his lawyer Oleksandr Goroshinsky said on the 112 Ukraine television channel, the politician is in Russia for rehabilitation after the operation. He needed treatment due to sports injury. According to the lawyer, his client may need medical assistance abroad.

This process is the trial of the victors over the vanquished. If the Ukrainian court relied solely on legislation, then those who organized a coup and came to power in an illegitimate way with the support of foreign states should be held accountable. The only thing that can be blamed on Yanukovych is poorly organized resistance to real treasonmen.
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  1. 0
    24 January 2019 18: 57
    I wanted to sit on 2 chairs.
  2. +1
    25 January 2019 07: 41
    The current government in Ukraine has made a very dangerous precedent. The figure of the president has ceased to be a "sacred cow" for the ruling elite of Ukraine. Therefore, Poroshenko put himself at risk. At the end of his presidential career, he himself has every chance of being in Yanukovych's place, although the attempt to assassinate Yanukovych has long turned Poroshenko into a potential target. Those people who have come to rule in Ukraine today will remain for a long time after the change of president; today, for them, the elimination of an unwanted politician is a completely acceptable option for resolving internal conflicts. I think that Poroshenko fully understands this and is unlikely to be present at the inauguration of his successor. It seems that the failure to bring Gorbachev to criminal responsibility in Russia is partly dictated by a negative example from Ukraine. Big "bosses" do not want to give birth to traditions of reprisals against departed opponents.