Poroshenko said that Ukraine looking forward to Yanukovych

The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, explaining the message of his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych's intention to return to Ukraine, said that its here look forward to.

According to the Agency about it Poroshenko said at a press conference in Zaporozhye, where he had gone in the first day of the weekend.

Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych have said before in an interview that Russian will return to the country as soon As he got such an opportunity arise.

according to the Agency, when asked to comment on the message Yanukovych, appeared in the Russian media about the desire to return to Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko said: "I think it will be good for Ukraine. Not sure that will be good for him. We anticipate it eagerly. And ready to meet. The faster he will return to Ukraine, the better it will be for Ukraine. Let them lead the protest movement. In the best case - in prison."

Yanukovych was elected President of Ukraine on February 25, 2010 for a five-year period. However, on February 22, 2014 in the country there was a coup d'etat. The Verkhovna Rada dismissed Yanukovych from power, changed the Constitution And appointed a may special election, the results of which became the new President Petro Poroshenko. After the coup d'etat fresh authorities opened a number of criminal cases in the former bureaucrats.

in early 2015, it was announced that the main Prosecutor's office of Ukraine at the beginning of the procedure absentee attract Yanukovich to liability under the criminal code And appealed to Russia with a request to extradite ex-President. The Prosecutor General's office suspected of Yanukovych in the creation of an illegal organization. The head of the Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation stated that he had Not received the documents for the extradition of Yanukovych Kyiv.


on the next day once Viktor Yanukovych And opposition leaders signed an agreement on the settlement brokered by the EU Parliament, taking advantage of the visit of Yanukovych in Kharkov, removed the President from power, changed the Constitution And called early elections on may 25. Viktor Yanukovych was forced to leave Ukraine, fearing for his life. Chronicle of the revolution -


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