The former head of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that did not participate in Euromayday, because the protesters were campaigning for the release from prison of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. About this he told in an interview to the newspaper.

" When the entire Maidan says: " Julia will!", My place is not there, " said Yushchenko, noting that Tymoshenko is to destabilize the Ukrainian President.

" If Tymoshenko will wait Peter Poroshenko 1st time stumble on the threshold, you will see the mission Tymoshenko, " added the ex-President.

Yushchenko also said that he came to the Maidan, however, According to the former head of the country, he was not an ideological supporter of the participants.

" I was well aware that in the political circle of leaders who there lives another project, parallel to the political action that occurs on the square. When I became a witness of mimicry, as seemed absolutely magnificent, healthy requirements smart youth overlap short-term transformation of power, I realized that we find ourselves in a great national calamity, " said the ex-President.

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