What do you think about the recent claims by President Viktor Yanukovych that unknown people are making mass purchases of weapons and are preparing to attack the authorities?
Oleg Lazarenko,
surgeon
“The [authorities] … are true gangsters. They are impudent and indifferent to ordinary people.”
Oleksandr Sych,
engineer
“I don’t believe in what he’s saying. He’s talking nonsense. That could be done to head the people off from more important things.”
Oleh Bondarenko,
scientist
“I’ve heard Yanukovych’s claims, but I have no idea who, where and why [anyone] is buying weapons in Ukraine. It could be a way to increase pressure against the opposition, I suppose.
Yanukovych’s government is not much better than the previous one, I must say.”
Svitlana Ignatenko,
retiree
“To tell the truth, I don’t know anything about that situation with the weapons. That can’t be true. They [authorities] just want to take people’s minds off many other problems that Ukraine is facing now.”
Oleh Arnautov,
worker
“If he’s afraid of something, there is a reason for that. But his claims are baseless. I’ve not seen any armed man so far as well as any weapon-buying craze.”
