Putin: Yanukovich could have been killed
15 March 2015 – 7:15pm
Organisers of the coup in Kyiv in 2014 planned assassination of Viktor Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, Itar Tass reports.”I invited to Kremlin heads of our intelligence services, the defence ministry, and set a task to save the life of Ukraine’s president; otherwise he would have been killed,” Itar Tass quotes Putin as saying a film called Way to Motherland, which Rossiya 1 television channel broadcasted on Sunday.