Joe Biden bluntly demanded that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich resign back in 2014, the former US vice president revealed. He also confirmed the US was deeply involved in Kiev's affairs during that year's crisis. From the very beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, the US sought to direct Yanukovich in his handling of the riots on Maidan Square that eventually led to a coup in Ukraine, Biden says in his new book titled "Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship And Purpose," which was published in November, but has now been brought into the media spotlight in connection with the US's role in the crisis. Biden reveals that he repeatedly called the then-Ukrainian president, telling him what he should or should not do.
At some point, Biden outright demanded that Yanukovich, a legitimately-elected leader of a sovereign nation, resign because he had "lost the confidence of the Ukrainian people" from Washington's point of view. "I was telling him [Yanukovich] it was over; time for him to call off his gunmen and walk away," Biden writes in his book, referring to "the last of [his] urgent calls to Yanukovich in late February of 2014." The former US vice president also claims that it was Yanukovich and his loyal law enforcement forces who were responsible for the Kiev massacre back in 2014. In fact, the events, in which unknown snipers gunned down dozens of protesters and several police officers in central Kiev, remain largely unsolved years nearly four years on. The investigation of the tragedy was de facto put on the back burner by the new Ukrainian authorities.
The probe initially managed to produce several suspects, with all of them being Berkut riot police members, even though it was known from the very beginning that sniper fire initially came from protester-controlled positions. Later, the head of an MP committee probing the mass killings mentioned "unidentified public organizations" as possible culprits, but no charges were known to have been placed. These facts, however, never stopped Biden from accusing Yanukovich of "loosing his riot police on the streets of Kiev... to murder demonstrators" and declaring the ousted president the main culprit behind the crisis. https://www.sott.net/article/372328-Biden-reveals-in-memoirs-US-meddling-in-Ukraine
