Moscow does not consider its goal to return Viktor Yanukovych to power, but continues to consider him a legitimate president of Ukraine, said Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin.
"Our task is not to return Yanukovuch to power. Do you think we don’t understand that Yanukovych won’t come back to power and run the state?" he said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to Churkin, the fate of Yanukovych "should be solved by the Ukrainian people."
"But the matter is that within the agreement (between Yanukovych and opposition) there are fixed parameters of democratic exit of Ukraine from the crisis", stated Churkin.
Ukraine's deposed president Viktor Yanukovych has formally asked Moscow to deploy Russian troops to re-establish law and order in his country, Russia told the UN Security Council on Monday.
"Under the influence of Western countries, there are open acts of terror and violence," Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin quoted the letter from Yanukovich to Putin in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
"People are being persecuted for language and political reasons," he quoted the letter as saying. "So in this regard I would call on the President of Russia, Mr. Putin, asking him to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order, stability and defending the people of Ukraine."
Churkin held up a copy of the letter for council members to see and it says "People are being persecuted for language and political reasons," Churkin read. ”So in this regard I would call on the President of Russia, Mr. Putin, asking him to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order, stability and defending the people of Ukraine."
Russia considers that it is necessary to ensure compliance with the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and opposition on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine, said Vitaly Churkin, Russia's permanent representative in the UN Security Council.
"It is necessary to ensure compliance with the obligations set in the agreement on 21 February, including the beginning of the process of constitutional reform with the participation and full account of the views of all the regions of Ukraine for the subsequent approval on a national referendum, and form a legitimate government of national unity in the interests of all the political forces and regions," Churkin said.
Russia has deployed roughly 16,000 troops to Ukraine's autonomous region of Crimea since last week, Kiev's UN Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev said on Monday.
"Beginning from 24 February, approximately 16,000 Russian troops have been deployed in Crimea by the military ships, helicopters, cargo airplanes from the neighboring territory of the Russian Federation," Sergeyev told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the crisis in his country.
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