Yanukovych keeps in touch with like-minded Ukrainians
KYIV. Nov 25 (Interfax) - The former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, is convinced that he currently has supporters and like-minded people in Ukraine, and he keeps in touch with them.
"I am sure that there are, and I am sure that there are many like-minded people [there]," he told a press conference in Rostov on Friday when asked whether he currently has supporters in Ukraine.
He stressed that he maintains contact with them. "I keep in touch. The fear that was initially instilled in people by these outlaws is gradually going away and people are raising their heads higher and higher," he said.
The current Ukrainian authorities are "afraid of including" his name in sociological surveys, he said.
Ukraine should return to implementing the agreement over settlement of its crisis, which he and three opposition leaders, as well as the foreign ministers of Germany, Poland and France, signed in February of 2014, Yanukovych said.
"Today, it is of course necessary to return to this agreement, because it was never implemented and this is where the deep crisis in Ukraine began," he said.
On February 21, 2014, Yanukovych, then president of Ukraine, and three opposition leaders - Vitaly Klitschko of UDAR Party, Arseniy Yatseniuk of Batkivshchyna and Oleh Tyahnybok of Svoboda - signed an agreement to resolve the crisis in Ukraine and had it certified by EU representatives. In particular, it was agreed to hold an early presidential election no later than December 2014.