Batkivschyna Party leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has suggested that the blasts in the town of Makiivka in Donetsk region are an internationally known political scheme used by the authorities to distract public attention.
"Such a scheme has been well tried in the world, in which the obvious discord within the current government is covered up by mysterious explosions. When the consciousness of the nation focuses on [the government’s] complete failure, then they try to divert its attention… I wouldn’t like my predictions to turn out to be true, but I have my suspicions," Tymoshenko said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online Internet newspaper.
"There were much more difficult times, especially under [former Ukrainian President Leonid] Kuchma, when pensions and salaries were not paid to people for 10 or 12 months, but nobody let off bombs anywhere, so it seems strange," she said.
