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Ukraine's second President (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma has said he does not want a face-to-face confrontation with former major of the Ukrainian State Guard Department Mykola Melnychenko.

"Not because I’m not ready. I just do not want to and will not meet him. You can imagine why. I do not want to say anything more," he told reporters on Wednesday before the interrogation at the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, when asked whether he was ready for a confrontation with Melnychenko.