Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the situation with mass protests in Kyiv has gone out of control.
“The situation has changed. On the one hand, we are not exculpating law
enforcers, while on the other hand, the politicians, who have joined
this rally, have sharply radicalized the situation. The mass nature of
the protest has got out of control, or, to be clear, it is controlled by
specific political forces,” he said at a meeting with the EU and U.S.
ambassadors in Kyiv on Monday.
According to the premier, these political forces have the illusion that “they can overthrow the existing regime.”
“Absolutely illegal methods are being used to achieve this illusion:
people are sent to seize state buildings, the work of the state
establishments is being blocked, and ultimatums are presented. This road
leads to nowhere,” Azarov said.
He says that the authorites gain no benefit from organizing provocations,
and those who provoked Sunday’s rioting in Kyiv have already been
idenitfied.
“We are only interested in one thing – to avoid these provocations.
Now we know very well who are behind those provocations,” he said at a
meeting with ambassadors of EU countries, Canada, and the United States
in Kyiv.
These are the so-called ‘ultras’ organizations: Dmytro Korchynsky’s
Bratstvo (Brotherhood) organization and a group of well-trained men
belonging to the Svoboda organization, he said.
