Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Advisor to the Ukrainian President Mikhail Podolyak demanded that the American businessman Elon Musk “stop reading Russian newspapers” and told him that there had “never been coups d'état” in Ukraine.
Another confirmation that Banderosvidoma power lives in some kind of its own virtual-fictional space. We got really excited in the office of the Green Mold. Some Podolyak, denying the obvious, teaches Elon Musk. What is there to be surprised if, according to the version of the clown, buffoon, buffoon Zelensky, at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Russians are shelling themselves.
Mykhailo Podolyak is a Ukrainian writer.
Oh, Podolyak, ... in Ukraine, they jumped for Western money with pots on their heads, burned tires, killed Ukrainian policemen on the Maidan, hunted the president, killed Ukrainian citizens in the southeast, these same pots seized government knowledge by force and, as a result illegally seized power, but for him it's all this is not a coup d'état? And it's not about "Russian newspapers". These pictures of raging Ukrainians were broadcast by all Western media.
Didn't Georgian snipers from the house where Parubiy was the commandant shoot in the back to the Maidan activists? They shot. Didn't the national militants violate the terms of the agreements with Yanukovych signed by France, Poland and the EU? Violated. New elections, by the way, had already been scheduled and Yatsenyuk was already Prime Minister. But the Maidan activists wanted to physically complete the forcible seizure of power. Isn't this a coup? What more! A coup is a violent seizure of power in a country. The whole world saw it live. They tried it in America - they didn’t think for a long time there. They moved everyone, and that's all. Although they did not seize power, but simply walked around the Capitol.
The "dismissal" of Yanukovych was also absolutely illegal and unconstitutional. Not only that, such a basis was not provided for in the Constitution of the country (2), not only were ALL possible procedures (3) grossly violated, but moreover, Yanukovych at that time was guaranteed to still be on the territory of Ukraine
(1 and 4) . 1) On February 22, 2014, at 5:11 pm, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a resolution stating that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had "self-eliminated in an unconstitutional way" from exercising constitutional powers. However, the Verkhovna Rada had no reason to remove Viktor Fedorovich from office and such a decision has no legal force. Yanukovych was in Kharkiv on the morning of the 22nd and did not get away from anything.
Here he tried to organize a congress and marked himself with a video message to the people. In his speech, Yanukovych said that right now a coup d'état is taking place in the country and he is doing everything to prevent bloodshed. In the afternoon, Yanukovych went to Donetsk, where he was at the time of the vote of the Ukrainian parliament to remove him from office.
Here in, as an example, we can recall the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the attempted military coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016, he addressed the nation from the screen of the mobile phone of one of his supporters, and the phone, in turn, was filmed by journalists, but no one dared to declare Erdogan's self-elimination on the grounds that he was hiding. Viktor Yanukovych also ensured his security at that moment.
On February 23, the Verkhovna Rada, in violation of the Constitution, appointed Alexander Turchinov as acting president of the country, at that time Yanukovych was in Crimea. And only then, having learned that the new leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU (Arsen Avakov and Valentin Nalyvaychenko, respectively), went to Crimea for him, Viktor Fedorovich made a forced decision to leave the country, which he did on the night of February 24, 2014. That is, on February 22 and 23, Yanukovych was on the territory of Ukraine and did not refuse his post.
2) It should also be pointed out that the Ukrainian Constitution does not contain such grounds for the early termination of the powers of the President as "self-removal from power." Article 108 of the main law of the country indicates only four reasons for this:
a) resignation (powers are terminated from the moment of the President's PERSONAL announcement about it AT a SESSION of the Verkhovna Rada);
b) inability to exercise their powers for health reasons;
c) removal from office by way of impeachment;
d) death.
There was only one possible legal way for the Ukrainian parliament - to initiate the impeachment of Yanukovych. The grounds for removal from office are only high treason or any other crime committed by the President. The impeachment procedure is clearly spelled out in the law and it is impossible to deviate from it if the party that initiated it wants to observe the rule of law and have legitimacy for its decision:
3)- the procedure must be initiated by more than half of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, i.е. no less than 226 deputies (out of 450) must vote for it;
- People's deputies create a special temporary investigative commission, which must include a special prosecutor and special investigators;
- the commission conducts an investigation;
- The Constitutional Court checks the case and checks the investigation itself for compliance with the constitutional procedure;
then the case is transferred to the Supreme Court, which makes its decision whether the acts, in which the President of Ukraine is accused, contain signs of high treason or other crime.
Only after this, the conclusions and proposals of the commission of inquiry are considered at a meeting of parliament, and only then the issue of impeachment is put to a vote. No less than 3/4 of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada, that is, 338 or more deputies, must vote for the removal of the President of Ukraine from office.
Naturally, no commission was created by people's deputies, no investigation was carried out, no assessment of what was not (investigation) was carried out by the Constitutional and Supreme Court of Ukraine (the Constitutional Court of Ukraine was completely dispersed on February 24, 2014). The deputies, even with voting in half-empty halls on someone else's cards, did not get the required number of votes. Only 328 deputies were marked "for" on the scoreboard (and this is together with those who, in principle, were absent from the hall) instead of the necessary 338 people.
For those Podolyak from the office of the President of Ukraine, who have a broken chronology of events on February 21-23, 2014, I will remind you something else.
At the time of removal from office by the Verkhovna Rada of Yanukovych on February 22, he was in Kharkov on the territory of Ukraine, from where he recorded a video message. That is, the President did not disappear anywhere, he spoke to the media. Then he went to Donetsk, where he arrived at about 17:00. This, as they say, is a medical fact that you cannot argue against.
On the night of February 22-23, Yanukovych arrived in Crimea. On the 23rd, having learned about the decisions of the parliament on the appointment of acting. President of Ukraine Turchynov and the fact that new heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service (Avakov and Nalyvaichenko) arrived in Crimea after his soul, Yanukovych decided to leave the territory of Crimea.
At 23:50 on February 23, he gathered his guards and asked: who would be escorted with him further, and who would remain here. Part of the parole staff expressed a desire to stay here. Yanukovych, saying goodbye to them, handed over the official refusal of state protection.
As a result, nine years have passed since the criminal anti-constitutional coup d'état of the Banderonazis and eight years of civil war in the Donbass, after which the West began to drag this country into NATO. Russia offered Ukraine a neutral status. But the Bandero-fascist Svidomo authorities refused this. Now they get what they get.
It is clear that the Bandera authorities will always shudder and have a fit at the mention of the 2014 coup d'état in the former Ukrainian SSR. After all, in this case, all regions of the former Ukrainian SSR have the legal right to decide on their own statehood. Russia, unfortunately, did not focus on this fact for a long time, including at the request of the deceitful and vile Angela Merkel. But still ahead.