The U.S. demanded that the Ukrainian government's aggressive policy toward Russia, and being refused, moved to action, said the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov in an interview to the Italian newspaper. "We tried to maintain good relations both with Russia and with the EU. But this distance did not like the United States, who wanted us to go back to the policy of the previous government, openly hostile to Russia, " Azarov says. When Kiev refused to sign the Association agreement with the European Union, the United States, According to Azarov, put the Ukrainian authorities an ultimatum to agree to the formation of a new government of national unity that satisfies anti-Russian forces ". Otherwise, America promised " not to remain on the sidelines ". then the country began to spread a wave of protests against the current government of Ukraine, in this case, according to the Ukrainian special services, protesters took orders directly from American citizens."