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The '''Maidan coup''' (''pron: My-dan coo'') or '''Ukrainian crisis of 2014''' was a violent U.S-backed anti-democratic [[color revolution]] which brought the [[neo-fascist]] '''Maidan regime''' to power in [[Ukraine]]. It began when the [[democracy|democratically]] elected government of [[President Viktor Yanukovych]] was overthrown on February 22, 2014 , following months of agitation by the [[Obama]] State Department and [[John Brennan]]'s [[CIA]]. It was an extension or continuation into [[Europe]] of the [[Obama administration]]'s failed "[[Arab Spring]]" [[regime change]] policy and widely seen as [[Western civilization |Western]] [[imperialism]].

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625, Declaration on Principles of International Law, concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, adopted on October 24, 1970 , states:

On June 23, 2011 , two emissaries of the [[Obama administration]] — the head of [[Google]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and his aide, and former subordinate to Hillary Clinton in the U.S. State Department, [[Jared Cohen]] — visited [[Julian Assange]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, pretending to be on his side, while deceiving him to reveal to them ways to reach out online to members of Ukraine’s Ukraine's pro-nazi organizations in order to generate mobs for the demonstrations which were to be organized on Kiev’s Kiev's Maidan Square to overthrow Ukraine’s Ukraine's President.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/PYiwx</ref><ref>https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/06/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref>

This was before the Maidan coup, and there were 28 years still remaining on Russia’s Russia's lease there. That part of their plan — to terminate that contract and replace Russia’s Russia's largest naval base, by yet another U.S. naval base — got foiled by Russia’s Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, protecting Crimeans when they (as soon as the coup occurred) demanded to have a referendum on becoming restored again to being a part of Russia, as they had been between 1783 and 1954 (when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea, from the Russian part, to the Ukrainian part, of the Soviet Government).<ref>https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00116/how-the-western-press-lied-about-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine-pretending-that-it-was-instead-a-real-democratic-revolution.htm</ref>

===Tech training camp, terrorist training, and Hromdske TV===

On March 1, 2013 , the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv held its first “Tech Camp”<ref>https://archive.ph/1JqVs</ref> in a series of Tech Camps to teach Ukraine’s Ukraine's leading pro-nazis how to reach out to their followers so as to get as many people as possible trained and prepared to follow their instructions on what to do when the Euromaidan 'anti-corruption' demonstrations would be held.

Let us summarize: in September 2013, according to the information presented to me, several dozen Ukrainian students of the Polytechnic University will come to Poland, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In fact, they are members of the Right Sector, an extreme right-wing and nationalist Ukrainian group led by [[Dmytro Jarosz]] – he declined to comment on his visit to Legionowo."<br>''Maidan secret state secret: Polish training camp for Ukrainians,'' Marek Miszczuk, NIE (“meaning “NO”) (original article in Polish). Published 14 April 2014. </ref>

86 fighters from the then prepared Euromaidan protests flew over the Vistula River into Poland in September 2013 at the invitation of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The pretext was to start cooperation between the Warsaw University of Technology and the National University of Technology in Kyiv. But they were in [[Poland]] to receive special training to overthrow Ukraine’s Ukraine's government. The schedule included such specialized training in:

On August 3, 2013 [[Obama regime]] ambassador [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] arrived in Kyiv. Almost immediately Pyatt authorized a grant for Hromadske TV, which would prove essential to building the [[Euromaidan]] street demonstrations against Ukraine's [[democracy|democratically]] elected president, [[Victor Yanukovych]]. The grant was only $43,737, with an additional $4,796 by November 13, 2013, enough to buy the modest equipment the project needed. Many of Hromadske's journalists had worked in the past with American benefactors. Editor-in-chief Roman Skrypin was a frequent contributor to Washington's Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertyand the US-funded Ukrayinska Pravda. In 2004, he had helped create Channel 5 television, which played a major role in the Orange Revolution that the US and its European allies masterminded in 2004. Skrypin had already gotten $10,560 from [[George Soros]]'s International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), which came as a recommendation from Pyatt. Sometime between December 2013 and the following April, IRF would give Hromadske another $19,183. Hromadske's biggest funding in that period came from the Embassy of the [[Netherlands]], which gave $95,168. As a departing US envoy to the Hague said in a secret cable that [[Wikileaks]] later made public, "Dutch pragmatism and our similar world-views make the Netherlands fertile ground for initiatives others in Europe might be reluctant, at least initially, to embrace."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/38987</ref> On November 20, 2013 , Ukraine member of parliament Oleg Tsarev accused the US Embassy in Kyiv of preparing a coup in Ukraine on the floor of the Ukrainian parliament. The nationalist faction in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, attempted to shout Tsarov done.<ref>https://youtu.be/CNsGqePNrFg</ref> Tsarov said:

This project is overseen by and currently under the responsibility of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, [[Geoffrey R. Pyatt]].

On November 21, 2013 , the Yanukovych administration rejected the European Union association agreement in favor of maintaining relations with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The covert path to securing a NATO naval base in [[Sevastopol]] on the [[Black Sea]] was effectively cut off. Soros-sponsored<ref>http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/2014mar14soros-behind-ukrainian-uprising/</ref> Within hours Hromadske TV went online and its journalists set the spark that brought Yanukovych down. Euromaiden riots erupted. Soros then funded a Ukrainian Crisis Media Center "to inform the international community about events in Ukraine."<ref>http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/march/25/meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev/</ref>

On November 23, 2013 , the poet Diana Kamlyuk performed on the Euromaidan stage. Kamlyuk is notorious for being convicted in 2008 for participating in the 2006 murder of a person of [[Nigeria]]n origin; this murder was an act of racial intolerance. She read poems from the collection ''The Voice of Blood'', which includes racist and [[anti-Semitic]] content. The amateur poet concluded her presentation with the exclamation: "May you push towards the goal and not be tricked by the yids’ pleas! The Ukrainian blood of the white man flows through our veins!"

The Pravy Sector came to prominence on December 1, 2013, when the radicals staged battles with the police guarding the Presidential Administration. They seized several buildings and settled on the 5th floor in the Kiev House of Trade Unions. At that time, the group was formally a hundred of the Maidan Self-Defense.<ref>Arsen Avakov later incorporated these neo-Nazi radicals of the Maidan Self Defense team into the Ministry of Interior. https://avakov.com/biography.html</ref> Militants organized rallies outside Maidan Square. They monitored the protesters and carried out their self-protection. But the PS didn't stop there. They attacked [[law enforcement]] officers, tried to seize the parliament and government buildings, beat the security forces with truncheons, threw cobblestones, smoke bombs, [[Molotov cocktail]]s at them, set fire to buses and trucks. In the battles on the streets, extremists used catapults built like the medieval type. The terrorist frenzy caused shock and dismay even among peaceful advocates of change.<ref><small>During a mass demonstration in Kyiv, activists of radical nationalist groups, joined by soccer hooligans, some radical activists in AUU Svoboda, and protesting youth, carried out a series of illegal actions. Fascist radicals were involved in clashes with the police. Supporters of Pravy Sektor entrenched themselves on the fifth floor of the House of Trade Unions. Party activists in AUU Svoboda took control of the Kyiv City State Administration building. The headquarters for one of the most radical groups of protesters, the neo-Nazi youth group Sich/C14, were located in this building. The apogee of violence against the legitimate authorities, occurring on December 1, 2013, was an

On December 11, 2013 Euromaidan protestors set up barricades around the perimeter of Maidan and Khreschatyk Boulevard and announced the resumption of picketing the government quarter.</small></ref>

On December 7, 2013 , leaflets signed by the All-Union Ukrainian Svoboda (Freedom) party appeared in the Kyiv subway calling for reprisals against [[Jews]] and their expulsion from "our country’s streets".

In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” On December 14 Sen. [[John McCain]] met with fascist leader Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev. <ref>https://progressivedemocrat.org/tag/oleh-tyahnybok/</ref>

On January 1, 2014 , a torchlight mob celebrated the 105th birthday of Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator [[Stepan Bandera]] in the streets of Kyiv<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-right-revives-wartime-symbols-amid-revolution-1.1642760|title=Ukraine right revives wartime symbols amid 'revolution'|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=3 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25571805|title= Ukraine's far-right Svoboda party hold torch-lit Kiev march|publisher= BBC News|date=1 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> Protesters carried the fascist black and red "blood and soil" flag of the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]].

On January 20, 2014 , vandals defaced the Pietà memorial in Pushkarevsky Park in Poltava (the site of the shooting of 15,000 Jews during World War II). Anti-Semites drew neo-Nazi symbols and [[graffiti]] on the monument: they wrote "Death to kikes" and

On January 28, 2014 , Assistant Secretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] and US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discussed details of planned overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine.The two discussed which opposition officials would make up the new regime, agreeing that Arseniy Yatsenyuk should be in charge. Nuland referred to as “Yats”. It was also agreed that someone “high profile” be brought in to "make this thing stick". That someone was Joe Biden. Nuland made disparaging remarks about the [[EU]], and thought the [[UN]] would give better cover to make the new US-installed regime appear legitimate. On February 6, an audio recording of the January 28 call between Nuland and Pyatt was leaked.

At the time the call leaked, media were quick to pounce on Nuland’s Nuland's saying “F**k the EU” when Pyatt asked if the EU should be advised. Member states of the EU, particularly [[France]] and [[Germany]], were deeply involved in negotiating a peaceful resolution to the civil strife. But the United States acted alone without consultation of its allies, presenting them with a ''fait accompli''. The comment dominated the headlines (Daily Beast, 2/6/14; BuzzFeed, 2/6/14; Atlantic, 2/6/14; Guardian, 2/6/14), while the evidence of US regime change efforts was downplayed. With the headline “Russia Claims US Is Meddling Over Ukraine,” the ''New York Times'' (2/6/14) put the facts of US involvement in the mouth of an official enemy, blunting their impact on the audience. ''The Times'' (2/6/14) later described the two officials as benignly “talking about the political crisis in Kiev” and sharing “their views of how it might be resolved.”[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Victorias Nuland (center) with [[neo-Nazi]] party founder [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), coup prime minster minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]

On February 6, 2014 , Nuland met with neo-Nazi leader [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] and other ringleaders who assumed power after the ''coup''.<ref>http://in.reuters.com/article/ukraine-call-idINDEEA1704520140208</ref> Tyahnybok leads the [[Svoboda]] party. In 2004 Tyahnybok was kicked out of the ruling parliamentary faction after giving a speech calling for a fight against the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia." In 2005 Tyahnybok signed an open letter to Ukrainian leaders calling for the government to halt the "criminal activities" of "organized Jewry", which was spreading its influence through organizations such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]] which ultimately wanted to commit "[[genocide]]" against the Ukrainian people.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20824693</ref> DCLeaks published Soros emails arranging a meeting between [[George Soros]] and Tyahnbok. Soros, an 84 -year -old self-admitted collaborator with the Nazi deportations of [[Jew]]s from [[Budapest]] to [[Auschwitz]] organized by [[Adolf Eichmann]],<ref>https://youtu.be/aSeI1f3uERI</ref> parlayed his looted property of [[Holocaust]] victims' into a $25 billion personal fortune after [[World War II]].

Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine’s Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref> As in [[Syria]] and other "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings, ''[[agent provocateurs]]'' began shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection. Almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref> George Friedman, chairman of ''Stratfor'', called it "the most blatant ''coup'' in history."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/22/the-liberal-idiocy-on-russiaukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177</ref>

On February 16, 2014 , members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the Pravy Sektor put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.

On February 20, 2014 , snipers firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed 25 people, both police and protesters. More than 350 citizens were injured, more than 250 were hospitalized. Riots in the center of Kiev continued in the following days. In connection with the tragic events, February 20 was declared a day of mourning. However, on this day, the clashes intensified. Dozens of people were killed by Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory and Hotel Ukraina buildings.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine], Ivan Katchanovski. YouTube.</ref> According to official data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, from February 18 to February 21 , 2014, 77 people were killed. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government. Western media blamed Yanukovych and the Berkut police. The mass murder in fact was carried out by the Pravy Sektor, the group Nuland and John McCain were promoting to take over the new regime.

The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref> The forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014 , the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref> Katchanovski</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan SqaureSquare, the Pravy Sektor rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the [[neo-fascist]] Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.

On February 27, 2014 , Nuland's choice, Yatsenyuk, became prime minister. In the deal, the fascist and neo-Nazi forces, which could not poll 2% in a nationwide election, were awarded six major cabinet ministries, including the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior due to their longstanding ties with [[Western alliance|Western intelligence]] services.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yarosh became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh’s Yarosh's spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Sviatoslav Yarosh.

In a ''Huff Post'' article September 1, 2016, Alexandra's sister [[Andrea Chalupa]] described Sviatoslav Yarosh as one of Ukraine’s Ukraine's important 'dreamers'. He is a young activist that founded ''Euromaidan Press''. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn’t doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yarosh was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]’s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the Deputy Director deputy director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in [[Kiev]].

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yarosh’s Yarosh's ''Euromaidan Press'', which is associated with Informnapalm.org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.<ref>[https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/01/crowdstrikes-russian-hacking-story-fell-apart-say-hello-fancy-bear-2.html Why Crowdstrike’s Russian Hacking Story Fell Apart- Say Hello to Fancy Bear.], George Eliason, ''Washingtonsblog,'' January 3, 2017.</ref>

[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|rightleft|350px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]On February 27, 2014 , Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because some of the people currently living in Crimea are ethinic Russians, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014 , on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine’s Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. John McCain introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015 , the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

On March 2, 2014, church parishioners found pamphlets on windows and doors of thirteen Orthodox churches in Kovel in the [[Volyn]] district. They were titled: "Get out, moskal!"<ref>A derisive term for Russians used by Ukrainians.</ref> They contained crude insults directed at the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] (UOC) priests in addition to their photographs.[[File:Sashko Billy.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Pravy Sektor coordinator Sashko Biliy assaulting and threatening the Rivne Oblast prosecutor.]]On March 5, 2014. Oleksandr Muzychko (Sashko BilyBilly), the coordinator of the Pravy Sektor in Western Ukraine, recorded and broadcast on the Internet a video address in which he called on people to "cleanse Ukraine and Crimea» of its Russian-speaking inhabitants."

On March 8, 2024 , B. Filatov, deputy governor of Dnepropetrovsk province appointed by the "new authorities" in putsch regime in Kyiv, wrote on his [[Facebook]] page how people who engage in actions that displease the "new Kyiv government" should be treated: "The scum must be given promises and guarantees, and any concessions must be made. Then we’ll hang them later."

In the early hours of March 11, 2014, extremists burned a [[Hungarian]] monument that was erected in the Verecke Pass in honor of the 1,100-year anniversary of the Hungarians’ crossing of the [[Carpathian Mountains]]. This incident triggered a series of anti-Hungarian actions against a backdrop of events directly or indirectly affecting the interests of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia. Representatives of the Svoboda party demanded that the country’s country's prosecutor general ban the Democratic Party of Ukrainian Hungarians headed by the only deputy, the Transcarpathian Hungarian I. Gaidosh. The Svoboda party claimed responsibility for a similar action in 2011 defiling a Hungarian memorial in the Verecke Pass. Days after the 2014 vandalism, a group of Ukrainian nationalist radicals attacked Hungarian schoolchildren who were visiting Transcarpathia from Miskolc, Hungary. The same day armed extremists stormed a meeting of the Hungarian community council in the city of Beregovo in Transcarpathian province and beat its participants.

On March 28, 2014 , representatives of community organizations of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia presented a petition to representatives of the "new government." In the document they express serious concern about the fact that there are armed radical elements springing up in Ukraine, and this "is provoking fear and diminishing people’s sense of safety." "More and more often, these people are deliberately inflaming interethnic conflicts, due in part to the distortion of historical facts in the history of Transcarpathia, and this is actively promulgated by some news media outlets."

On July 31, 2014 , Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> appears on Hromadske TV discussing [[genocide]] in Donbas. Boutkevitch says Donetsk:

On April 16, 2014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014 , Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 48 Russians, in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>

On July 31, 2014 , Democratic Sen. [[Mark Udall]] called for CIA Director Brennan's resignation.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213991-senate-dem-calls-for-cia-chiefs-resignation-after-staff-spying</ref>

On September 18, 2015 , the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] of 48 Ukrainians at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

He was also desperate to get out of legal trouble. At the time, a corruption investigation in the U.K. had resulted in the freezing of $23 million of Zlochevsky’s Zlochevsky's assets. Then, in August 2014, the oligarch was forced to follow Yanukovych into exile after being accused of illegally enriching himself.

The need to refurbish Burisma’s Burisma's tattered image, as well as his own, prompted Zlochevsky to resort to forking over large sums of money to win friends in [[Washington, D.C.]]. [[Hunter Biden]] and the [[Atlantic Council]] were soon to become two of his best friends. Hunter Biden also held a position at the National Democratic Institute, a U.S.-funded “democracy promotion” organization that was heavily involved in pushing [[regime change]] in Ukraine. Burisma handed him a position on its board despite his lack of experience in the energy industry and in Ukrainian affairs. Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 per month. The money was split in half with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]], with half of Hunter's share going to his father, Vice President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden enlisted the D.C. law firm, Boies, Schiller, and Flexner, where he served as co-counsel, to help “improve [Burisma’s] corporate governance.” By the following January 2015, Zlochevsky’s Zlochevsky's assets were unfrozen by the U.K.<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/british-court-unfreezes-accounts-of-yanukovych-era-ecology-minister-zlochevsky-378238.html?cn-reloaded=1</ref>

During a May 13, 2014, press conference, Matt Lee of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' grilled State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki about Hunter Biden’s Biden's role on Burisma’s Burisma's board.

*[https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] youtubeYouTube.