28 Feb 2014 17:58

Events in Crimea are natural reaction to "bandit coup" in Kyiv - Yanukovych

ROSTOV-ON-DON. Feb 28 (Interfax) - Viktor Yanukovych believes the events in Crimea are a natural reaction to the coup in Kyiv, adding that he is convinced that the people of Crimea will not obey nationalists and bandits.

"I believe everything that is now happening in Crimea is an absolutely natural reaction to the bandit coup that has occurred in Kyiv," Yanukovych told a press conference in Rostov-on-Don.

Yanukovych reiterated that power in Ukraine was usurped by "a bunch of radicals" and said he is confident that the people of Crimea "do not want to obey and will not obey nationalists and bandits."