NEWSLINK: “Russian media release text of Yanukovych’s letter to Trump” – Kyiv Post/Euan MacDonald, Olga Rudenko

“Editor’s Note: Russian media on Feb. 22 released the text of a letter allegedly sent by the ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to U.S. President Donald Trump. Yanukovych claimed that he had sent letters to Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview published on Feb. 22 by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. In the letter, Yanukovych gives his own chronology of the events of the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s subsequent war on Ukraine in the Donbas. He also sets out his view on how the situation in Ukraine can be resolved. The text of the letter given below was translated from Russian and edited by Kyiv Post editors Euan MacDonald and Olga Rudenko. While Yanukovych’s account contains many false statements, errors and inaccuracies, these have not been noted or corrected in the text, which was edited only for style and readability. The format of the original Russian text, which can be found here, was also retained. [http://echo.msk.ru/blog/echomsk/1932612-echo/] …”