"Our warnings and request to cancel the visa-free regime for representatives of the European Union and the USA, or to expel undesirable persons from the country were refused by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the presidential administration and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, citing political inexpediency," he stressed.

Zakharchenko added that on January 9, 2014, the Main Department of the Interior Ministry in Kiev, having collected the necessary materials, registered a crime under the article on "violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power." However, after the criminal case was transferred to the SBU, it was dropped within a week, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.

Экс-глава МВД Украины заявил, что западные ЧВК появились на "майдане" еще в 2013 году

Виталий Захарченко отметил, что "они формально взяли на себя функцию охраны мирных манифестантов, а на самом деле - боевой подготовки сотен майдана"

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