Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in 2014 as a consequence of an illegal and violent coup, delivered his first comments on current developments in Ukraine.
Yuriy Kirasir, Yanukovych’s press secretary, shared the letter’s language on social media.
Yanukovych claimed in the letter that Ukraine may be fully erased from the world map and merged with Poland.
“As terrible as it is for me to write this now, Ukraine’s sovereignty is in grave jeopardy. The country is on the verge of extinction. It’s not just about the possibility of losing vast swaths of land in the country’s south and east,” Yanukovych wrote.
According to the ex-president, the state of affairs in the western direction is not good either.
“Poland remembers not only September of 1939. Poland has good memories of March of 1923, when ambassadors of the Entente states finally included the territories of Eastern Galicia and the western part of Volhynia into the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” Viktor Yanukovych wrote.
Ukraine’s current situational rapprochement with Poland may eventually result in the establishment of a new state as Ukraine merges with Poland completely, Yanukovych wrote. Ukraine is facing a serious threat of economic insolvency, and the country will not be able to protect it sovereignty, he wrote.
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