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Russische afgevaardigde (VN): De VS heeft 5 miljard US$ in de Oekraiense staatsgreep geinvesteerd

RT - US responsible for Ukrainian crisis after investing $5 billion in regime change – Russia’s envoy to UN

The US is to blame for the events in Ukraine as it invested $5 billion in regime change in the country, taking a more radical stance that its EU allies, Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s envoy to the UN, said.

“It seems it was the Americans, who tried to push through the most radical scenario,” Churkin said in an interview with Rossiya 24 channel. “They didn’t want any sort of compromise between [ousted president Viktor] Yanukovych and the opposition. And, I think, they came to the conclusion that it was time to cash in those $5 billion and handle the matter towards abrupt regime change, which, eventually, happened.”

This explains why the US, but not the European Union took centre stage when the coup resulted in legal vacuum in Kiev, he added.