“The main motive and the main task that was given to the court in this process is to release from liability the real perpetrators of the tragedy on Maidan, which occurred in 2014 ... The real perpetrators are in power and, realizing their responsibility and possible punishment, initiated this process so that rewrite the official history of 2014 and shift the responsibility from his shoulders onto the shoulders of President Viktor Yanukovych, ”said Serdyuk.
Earlier, a court in Kiev recognized Yanukovich’s proven guilt in the case of treason.
It was reported that the prosecutor's office of Ukraine is asking the court to sentence Yanukovych in absentia to 15 years in prison.