Ukraine has received nothing in exchange for the extension of the lease on the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea and therefore the agreements signed by Ukraine and Russia in Kharkiv in 2010 should be cancelled, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has said.
"We gave away our national territory. We sold it without receiving any payment, but most importantly, we lost a strategic policy for our nation in a key issue – Ukraine’s participation in the European club of collective security," he said on Channel 5 on Thursday evening.
Yuschenko also said that while assessing the Russian prime minister’s latest visit to Ukraine and its impact, it could be assumed that today, Ukrainian lawmakers would not ratify the "Kharkiv agreements."
"If the question of the ratification of the ‘Kharkiv agreements’ were to raised today, it would not happen," the former president said.
In this regard, Yuschenko said that "a noble cause" would be the cancellation of the gas agreement and the "Kharkiv agreements," as, in his opinion, these documents are not in line with Ukraine’s national interests.
