In November 2013, Yanukovych was blackmailed by Putin: if he dared to sign the agreement with the EU, Putin would take large parts of Ukraine, according to Hennadiy Moskal (2018). Yanukovych also told the Lithuanian president Grybauskaitė that he was being blackmailed by Putin.
Yanukovych also admitted to the Lithuanian president that Putin was openly threatening him.
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Starting in February 2014, Putin will first send his secret service agents and army to Crimea and shortly thereafter to eastern Ukraine.
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1/ 10.07.2014: Igor Girkin, colonel of the Russian FSB and first defense minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, confirms that the Russian special forces were sent to eastern Ukraine to start an open rebellion against the Ukrainian state as they did in Crimea.
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41/ 14.–21.11.2013: Janukowytsch trifft mehrfach Putin. Laut Hennadiy Moskal (2018) bot Putin ihm zunächst Geld und drohte anschließend offen: Sollte Janukowytsch etwas mit der EU unterzeichnen, werde Russland sich Krim, Donezk, Luhansk und sogar Odessa holen.
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