EU MILLIONS PAID FOR UKRAINIAN GROUPS BEHIND YANUKOVYCH OVERTHROW

The European Union pumped €436m (£348m/$586m) into Ukraine's anti-Russian "civil society" groups in the seven years leading up to overthrow of the democratically-elected President Yanukovych in February this year.

Civil society groups and other pressure groups - some of them backed by the United States as well as the EU - were behind the Euromaidan demonstrations which undermined Yanokovych after he decided not to sign an agreement that would have put Ukraine on the path towards EU membership and compulsory military cooperation.

The figure of €436m was uncovered after the European Commission office in London had claimed that just €31m (£25m/$42m) was given to the Ukraine for civil society groups between 2004-2013.

The commission made the claim in a letter to British writer Peter Hitchens after he had quoted in the Mail on Sunday a figure of €389m, originally from the American Spectator. Hitchens published the commission’s letter on his blog.

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