Media: Biden not allowed to lay flowers to the monument " heavenly hundreds "
Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden during his visit to Ukraine was unable to lay flowers to the monument " Heavenly hundreds " on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, due to passing on the square of the meeting, informs journal the Washington post.
The Biden visit to Kiev was obliged to begin with a meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on independence square, where they were obliged to honor the memory of victims of clashes in the process of Euromayday.
According to the journalist of the edition, accompanied Biden's trip to Ukraine, a hundred people - mostly elderly citizens, gathered in the square in Front of the wooden cross. Before him were spread out pictures, and they said, because it is their murdered children. Poroshenko came to the square earlier, Biden, and the crowd around him immediately increased, which however did not cause overt interference from the protection of the Ukrainian leader told the journalist.
The tuple Biden came to the square, when the crowd was already in " harder to see ".
" most of the screaming (President) Poroshenko " shame " because he failed to prosecute those responsible for the death of people. The security of the Vice President decided that it would be better if he didn't go there. The convoy turned around (and stopped in the distance), " - said the journalist.
according to him, later Poroshenko came to the tuple Biden, the Vice President came out and greeted the Ukrainian leader. Then Biden went to a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatsenyuk.
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) became the epicenter of conflict between the security forces and active participants in the process subversive performances in Ukraine in February. The fiercest fighting took place right on the square and adjacent streets. Eventually fights on the street, dozens of people lost their lives, and among them from aimed fire from unknown. Advisor to the President of Petro Poroshenko Oleg Machnicki've always said that the Ukrainian police interfere with the investigation of these events.