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Russia rejects UK claim of trying to replace Ukraine leader
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MOSCOW, 24 January 2022, (TON): Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that Russia was seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev was being considered as a potential candidate.
Britain’s Foreign Office also named several other Ukrainian politicians it said had links with Russian intelligence services, along with Murayev who is the leader of a small party that has no seats in the parliament.
Those politicians include Mykola Azarov, a former prime minister under Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president ousted in a 2014 uprising, and Yanukovych’s former chief of staff, Andriy Kluyev.
The Foreign Office said “some of these have contact with Russian intelligence officers currently involved in the planning for an attack on Ukraine.”
He said in a Facebook post “the time of pro-Western and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine is gone forever.”
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