Ukraine's first president (1991-1994), Leonid Kravchuk, has said he believes that third president (2005-2010) Viktor Yushchenko is also responsible for the signing of gas contracts with Russia in 2009.
"He’s one of those guilty, and he should sit in the dock next to [former Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko, rather than provide testimony," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
Kravchuk noted that all of the country’s presidents without exception "intervened and are intervening in the energy sector, even when they did not and do not have any grounds to do so."
He said that Yuschenko, under the Constitution of Ukraine that was in effect during his presidency, "had no such right, but he intervened."
"Who is guilty? It’s necessary to prosecute everybody, perhaps, starting with Kravchuk, all 17 prime ministers and four presidents, and then say what they did for Ukraine and what they did for themselves. I’m ready for such a scenario, because I did everything for Ukraine, rather than for myself," Kravchuk said.
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