YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. Former President of Ukraine has announced that the coup in his country was inevitable, while it had been planned long before. “Armenpress” reports Yanukovich told about this in “Ukraine on Fire” film produced by Oliver Stone.

“Even today we do not know who fired at the people. This is a very dangerous theme. No one today can feel safe”, he said.

Recalling year 2013, the former president noted that it was a very turbulent period for the country. “Kiev’s hope was first of all the International Monetary Fund, but the Fund proposed an unacceptable option. Particularly, the Fund proposed to increase electricity and gas tariffs for the population, which meant a serious rise in spending with the same revenues for the people”, Viktor Yanukovich said, adding that they refused that option then, and proposed other solutions, but the IMF declined all of them in November, 2013. “Now Russia was our hope. Russia told us they are ready to work with us as partners, if we take their interests into account. We saw that the document prepared by Europe for us demanded huge economic expenditures, while Europe was not ready to compensate. “Our talks with Europe were unproductive, so we decided to pause”, Yanukovich told.

He added that first he thought the protests would be peaceful, and it is possible to engage in a dialogue with peaceful protesters, to which he was ready. Yanukovich also added that when the peaceful protests turned into armed insurgency, he was against using force against the protesters. According to him his reaction was immediate and he tried to find out who had commanded to use force against the protestors.